Dear Gayathri, hello! Thnak you for your comment :) You know, it was a beautiful thing - she did have to get another green card (she had to go to Japan not long after to visit her sick mother) - the community came together to help her. She has many peace drums. She said, maybe the buddha and the peace drum will help the men who took it. She said too that we can't fully blame these men (all African American - but I didn't want to highlight that in my story) because of the way our society treated their ancestors and continue to treat Black people in this country . This was where her (and my) sadness stemmed.