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Step-by-step explanation:
For almost a year, Deborah refuses to talk to Rebecca, and so Rebecca conducts other research, periodically calling Deborah. One day, Reverend James Pullum picks up the phone and screams at Rebecca that the family wants to receive “monetary satisfaction.” At last Deborah calls Rebecca: she demands that Rebecca get Henrietta’s name right, that she mention Elsie, and that she help Deborah find out “what happened to my mother and my sister.”
Deborah and Rebecca meet in July 2000 in Baltimore. Rebecca shows Deborah a gift from a Hopkins cancer researcher named Christoph Lengauer. Having heard about Rebecca’s research, and having worked with HeLa for years, Lengauer has expressed remorse about the fate of the Lackses.
Lengauer has been working with HeLa for his entire career. As a student, he helped develop a technique to artificially color chromosomes in order to obtain info about a person’s DNA; the technique also “creates a beautiful mosaic of colored chromosomes.” Lengauer has done this with Henrietta’s chromosomes, and has framed a large print for the Lackses, in order to express how grateful he is to them.
Deborah is surprised by how beautiful the chromosomes look, and expresses a desire to learn more about what HeLa helped to create. Rebecca invites Deborah to Lengauer’s lab, but Deborah says that she’s not ready yet. She once again expresses dismay that “white folks” got rich off of Henrietta’s cells while the Lackses remain poor.