Chapter 14Can a connection come from an unlikely place? Can a connection come from someone you had no idea of? Can a connection alter the course of one’s journey? Can a connection make you realize that you are not alone after all? I wrote that short themily the night after dinner with the Maldonados. I’d had no idea that dinner would reveal so much information. I felt an immediate bond with both of them, very much like my bond with the Copperwiths. I could not wait to discuss everything with Diakono Copperwith. However, I could not share what I was going to do after the Walter’s Grove New Year Celebration. In the next few days, Diakono Copperwith got more people to listen to the teachings from the Book of Kammbi on the street corner. Lauricio gathered up other people who lived on the

