NINE YEAR OLD Margot remembers the sun. "[A] yellow crayon or a coin large enough to buy the world with . . . a warmness, like a blushing in the face, in the bo

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THE FIRST PRESIDENT Documented national history states that the nation's first president had no children. But the oral history of the descendants of this Africa