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Chp 2 Annie: I sat at the base of a Sweet Gum tree. Spiky cuckabugs covered the yard. Soon the pecans would drop. When I was little, I hired myself out to neighbors picking up nuts for a couple of quarters. Niecy and I shelled them, too.
— Sep 23, 2026 01:11PM
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Chp 17 (Vernice): “Did she refer you to Spelman?” Mrs. Patty McHenry asked Vernice.
“Her and my aunt that raised me.”
“She and your aunt,” she said, gently tweaking my grammar, “and we raise potatoes while we rear children.”
— Sep 27, 2026 09:43AM
“Her and my aunt that raised me.”
“She and your aunt,” she said, gently tweaking my grammar, “and we raise potatoes while we rear children.”
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Chp 14: Annie. Now, do not take this the wrong way. I won’t start calling your mama like some people we know. Lulabelle Simms, you gave me the closest thing to mother love I have ever felt. You didn’t know me from Eve. But you gave me the care that people save for kin.
— Sep 26, 2026 01:15PM
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Chp 1: Vernice: Annie’s granny acted as though Annie was asking for advice rather than relief. She said, “Irene, nobody knows anything about raising children, each one is different, and you just have to do the best you can…”
— Sep 23, 2026 10:18AM