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In Inheriting Our Names C. Vargus McPherson tells of the author’s search for her mother’s, and her grandmother’s, history and begins with the author sitting at the feet of the statue of the Virgin in the Basilica de la Macarena in Seville, fingering her grandmother’s rosary beads and attempting to say the cycle of the Seven Sorrows of Mary.