From the Dec. 15 article about the closing of Street 14 Cafe, a reader would think that Micha Lattek moved from Berlin to Astoria in 2012 by himself. But he didn’t; he came with me. We bought the cafe because we wanted to be closer to my hometown of Portland, and we wanted to run a business together. Our whole story is easy to find in The Astorian’s own archives.

Lives change, and I haven’t been a part of the cafe since Micha and I divorced in early 2020. But I spent seven years building that business — cooking, baking, managing the team and strategizing our next endeavors. Even dusting the iconic neon sign. Micha was certainly the face of Street 14, but it wasn’t a solo act.

Your erasure of my name from the history of Street 14 Cafe is insulting, and dismisses my contribution to a place that has been central to the Astoria community for a decade. It’s sad to see it go — Street 14 was a place to bump into your neighbor, to gather, to celebrate. It was also, for a time, mine.

JENNIFER ESTNER (formerly CAMERON-LATTEK)

Portland