She experienced first hand the harm of a single story, her mother's single story about her father's family shaped how she saw them. Even before going to meet them, she already had assumptions about how poor they were. That alone created what they were like in her head and although she was proven wrong and saw how harmful it was. Single stories on a bigger scale will be harder to dismantle and will continue to be the truth until proven otherwise.

She experienced how harmful a single story is first hand, the only thing she saw them as was poor. Driven by the single story told by her mother which shaped her image of them. Poor meant that her father's family couldn't make anything, and was proven wrong when she met them. She had the experience of seeing that she was wrong with her own eyes, but on a bigger scale it will be hard to dismantle single stories.