If there’s one lesson that can be teased out of the last year, it‘s that introducing new facts into our shambled-together and propped-up worldview can bring the whole thing down. Sure there can be resistance, if not flat-out battle, when some sobering new fact is introduced. It’s scary! Which is why when Prince’s only full sibling, Tyka Nelson, told the Evening Standard on August 21 that his “favorite color was actually orange” it felt a like a real gut punch.

But worry not. Half-sister Sharon Nelson corrected the claim in a statement to the Associated Press on Thursday, saying, “contrary to what has been said, purple was and is Prince’s color.” She added that he “was fond of many colors in the rainbow, he especially loved the color purple because it represented royalty” and “the color purple always made him feel Princely.” Is this the happiest news all week? Without even consulting Google, dear reader, I can tell you that yes it is.

Yes, Prince flirted with other colors. There was that song about a “Little Red Corvette.” There was something about “Pink Cashmere.” Yes, he had the orange guitar. Yes, he didn’t exclusively wear purple. But evidence is overwhelming that purple was the hue he always came back to. Purple Rain, both the film and the soundtrack. The Purple One. The purple piano he planned to take on tour before he died. Purple is Prince, Prince is purple.

Who knows why Nelson said it. We can’t explain a human impulse to explode expectation, but we’ve all felt it, too—the desire to say, You think you know, but you have no idea. Maybe she really wanted to stick it to Pantone, the color kingpin who had gone so far as to name a color in Prince’s honor. It was called “Love Symbol #2.” Maybe big orange got to her, like they did Nickelodeon so many years ago.

Whatever the reason, rest easy knowing the Jenga game comprising one’s world view has been re-stacked. The purple rug pulled out from under us has been gently put back under our feet. The porcelain pot holding everything we know to be true has been glued back together. There might be cracks now, but it’s whole again.