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Letters From The Time Traveler: Meeting My Great Grandson

PomeroySays
5 min readJul 19, 2024

Dearest Edith,

Everyone wants to know about the future, including those of us who lived in the distant past. Who doesn’t want to know if their great-grandchild will find a cure for cancer or colonize Mars?

I think many of us as well would like to meet our ancestors. Or our descendants.

I have always known my family tree, both forward and backward. This is to ensure I do not come across someone I am not supposed to interact with.

But fate is strange. Coincidence is strange. Here is my tree, as you know most of it:

Meeting Alex

Recently, quite happenstance, to meet my 4th great-grandson. As I wrote to you here, I met Alex most unexpectedly.

As travelers, we are not allowed to meet our descendants but sometimes it happens. The irony is not lost on me that his name is Alexander, strangely also named after your own father.

Quite the coincidence. But dear, I am getting ahead of myself. Here is how I met him and how I had to make myself disappear from his life.

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