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Asia East — 1%

EUROPE — 20%

Great Britain — 17%

Europe West — 2%

Ireland — 1%

Low Confidence Regions

European Jewish — <1%

Finland/Northwest Russia — <1%

Scandinavia — <1%

Meadow scanned the results and squealed excitedly. “Oh my gosh! Look how much Nigerian ancestry I have!”

Logan laughed warmly and kissed her temple. “My Nigerian queen.”

She giggled delightedly, beaming at the laptop screen. “This is so fascinating! I wonder which tribe my Nigerian ancestors belonged to? Were they Igbo? Hausa? Yoruba? And what about the ancestors from Ghana? Were they Ashanti?” She clapped her hands together. “I can’t wait to get my results back from African Ancestry. That’s when I’ll find out which tribes I’m from.”

Logan smiled at her. “Cynara speaks fluent Igbo. Maybe she can teach you someday.”

“Oh, that would be wonderful! I’d love to learn a West African language!”

“I’ll tell her. She was just as thrilled as you are when she found out she has some Nigerian ancestry, which is what inspired her to learn more about the country’s different languages and cultures. The two of you could probably talk for hours.”

Meadow beamed. “One of my college sorors is Nigerian. I used to love going home with her and eating jollof rice and fufu with okra soup. She’d always laugh and tell me that I probably had Nigerian ancestry. I can’t wait to tell her she was right.”

Logan chuckled warmly, pointing to the screen. “Are you curious about your European or Asian ancestry?”

“Of course. But not as curious as I am about my African roots,” she admitted sheepishly. “There’s so much more I want to learn. I’d really love to dig deeper into my genealogy.”

“You should do it,” Logan said encouragingly. “One of the good things about this company is that you can link your results to a family tree and get matched with relatives. I’ll get us both a subscription so we can access their other resources and historical records.”

“That would be wonderful, Logan. Thank you so much.”

He kissed the side of her head, pressing his face into her hair.

As she stared at her DNA report, she was hit by a wave of emotions that clogged her throat. It was bittersweet to receive these ancestry results just days after recovering the memory of her parents’ tragic deaths. They’d given her life. Their genes ran through her blood. So even though they were gone, they would always be a part of her. Always connected.

Comforted by the thought, she blinked back tears and smiled at Logan. “Your turn.”

He pulled up his AncestryDNA email, took a deep breath and opened the report.

Meadow leaned forward, eagerly scouring his ethnicity breakdown:

EUROPE — 96%

Great Britain — 54%

Europe West — 21%

Ireland/Scotland — 14%

Europe South — 3%

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