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In 2022 Maurice Rocco at last had a proper gravestone, installed in the public cemetery in Oxford, Ohio, where he grew up and is buried. I recount my experience of speaking at Rocco’s memorial, reflecting once again on my relationship to this research topic, and the limits of my mandate to weigh in. Along with intimacy, “acknowledgment” is one of this book’s central keywords. This chapter discusses acknowledgment as a concept, and how this book has tried to mobilize it as an ethics.