This text is about the author’s relationship to a woman named Lucille Kolkin. It analyzes their relationship and what each of then got out of it. The author decides to learn about history to a primary source. She befriends a woman who lived and was part of the time period and topic she is researchig. Jennifer Egan decides to physically learn about history. She learns through letters and stories told and written by Lucille herself. At first, the authors relationship to Lucille is strictly about her finding things out for her book, she Is reading her memoirs to learn more about her topic. The relationship changes after he discovers that Lucille passed away, she begins to actually realize that she was a good human being. The more and more she reads, the more she is interested on Lucilles life and the less she is interested in her topic about the navy yard. After she reads all the letters, you see how much that time meant to her, it was a form for using her time an learning more about history and discovering the life of this woman whome she finds particularly interesting. She begins trying to find living relatives to discuss her life more thoroughly, trying to find something that’ll keep her connected to Lucille in some way. In the end, she realizes it is time to let go if this wonderful journey she has had with letters that made her feel as if her and Lucille where physically connected.