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“Money became the focus of all their discussions, hers for clothes, his for drink. The sad thing was that Pauline did not care for clothes and make up. She merely wanted other women to cast favorable glances her way”.

“Pauline felt uncomfortable with the few black women she met. They were amused by her because she did not straighten her hair. When she tried to make up her face as they did, it came off badly. Their goading glances and private snickers and way of talking and dressing developed in her a desire for new clothes.”

“It was empty now, but sweetly expectant of clean, white, well-behaved children and parents who would play there above in the lake in summer before half-running, half-stumbling down the slope to the welcoming water. Black people were not allowed in the park, and so it filled our dreams”.