Continued The Correspondent
TO: sybilvanantwerp@
FROM: customerservice@
SUBJECT: Re: HERE GOES NOTHING (Attn: Basam)
Dear Ms. Van Antwerp,
I do continue to work for Kindred Project, but please allow me to clarify that I work in an office with a team of customer service representatives from the company and your DNA is not en route to my office specifically.
We do not conduct DNA testing here; it is outsourced to labs around the country, so I will not personally receive, process, or dispose of your sample, but I can assure you it will be handled with professionalism and care.
It will be six to eight weeks before you will hear about your results.
Your apology is noted, and previous offenses are forgiven. You are not the first person to mis-assign my ethnicity, and you will unfortunately not be the last.
I am a reader, but I have not read the book you mentioned.
I will add it to my list and see if it is available at the library near my home.
My children are ten and thirteen, a boy and a girl.
I am sorry about your oncoming blindness, and moreover, sorry for the loss of your other child.
While I have mercifully not lost a child, I have lost many family members, my home, my country, my religion, so I think I can understand a little of your grief, though when my brother died in the war it toppled my mother, so perhaps that specific grief, that of a mother losing her son, I cannot.
My degree is from a university in Egypt called Kafr El Sheikh.
Please don’t hesitate to reach out with additional questions! Thank you for contacting .
Basam