Kaatjie spent some amount of time staring at the letter, and then took another day to reply. Her mother had told her she was nothing if not tenacious. Ana would not have given up after one letter So neither could Kaatjie.

Mr. Don Juan Dempsey,

No, I definitely meant to write you. There is already a great deal of research on Mr. Eamon Dempsey.

X

(There wasn't, or it was written at a level that she had been unable to understand. But writing to another grandfather was daunting in and of itself, because she had had a grandfather who loved and spoiled her very much, and missed him dearly. What if Eamon Dempsey did not live up to the expectations set by Grandfather Spaans?

She'd never had a father — so there were no expectations.)