Their weekly meetings, which grew increasingly lighthearted, went on for a year. Then, one day in late spring, he told them he was closing his Figueroa Street studio. He gave Amira an old suitcase. Inside was a vintage camera, a 1937 Leica II Model and dozens of rubber stamps.
She couldn’t be certain, but the suitcase appeared to be the same model as one her mother had once traveled with.