Christmas 1975 my uncle Ben Gamber walked into a post office in Mombasa, Kenya and mailed what would become his final letter. A few days later his body was found and flown home to Ethiopia where he had grown up the oldest son of Mennonite Missionaries. 

As a kid, my family didn't talk about Ben or much about their time as missionaries, which made me wonder if there was a connection between Ben's death, his final letter, and a feeling that we were irrecoverably fractured as a family.  

 

Is it possible that forty-two years later Ben's letter could still be out there?