Ayelet Tsabari writes a ​“strange, unex­pect­ed post­script” to her essay ​“A Sim­ple Girl,” excerpt­ed in the 2019 issue of Paper Brigade.

Ten years after my grand­fa­ther died, I found myself sort­ing through a shal­low plas­tic bin that held the accu­mu­lat­ed doc­u­men­ta­tion of his life.