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There are still ten feet between her and the echoing sound of her own voice, telling her she can still be anybody she wants to

At first Claire thinks their silence is hesita-tion, but everyone remains still long beyond awkwardness—ten minutes, exactly

she feels shame and relief, in which order she cannot say. Claire rides to prom in a limo with Seraphin and her boyfriend and a date whose name she forgets soon after.

t’s Angela who won’t talk to her now, and the tenth time Mrs. Hall knocks on their front door and no one answers, Claire’s father gets a restraining order. Claire tells the reporter Aaron was a friend, that she was drunk and he was tak-ing her home, but the bones of that story don’t convince anyone it wasn’t all, at best, a tragic misunderstanding

Aaron only goes faster, losing them for a moment, then, less than a mile from their houses, turning onto Cleveland Street at such speed that he spins out and the car flips into the trees.

She shakes her head, but he ignores her and comes close enough that he could touch her if he stretched out his arm. Claire lets out a scream that startles him into momentary retreat, a bestial noise she has been holding in for months.

He is still skinny, his hips slimmer than hers, so she slides underneath him; the weight of her, it seems, might smother him, but the weight of him tethers her to something. He is too gentle with her even after she tells him not to be; after he is finished she has to fake an orgasm to get him to stop

Claire turns to Angela. It is a love that requires touch, and so Claire snuggles against her, nuzzles into her neck to say it out loud against her. Love love love. Angela is her best friend, her other self.

there is so little room for interlopers in the tight world of their friendship that they are often each other’s only mirrors

Claire prints a photo of the Confederate flag and scrawls in loopy cursive on the back Welcome back! I hope you

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Boys, he insists, would have to be smart to go to Jupiter, and would probably go to college first.

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Then he would use what he collected to feed his family or to trade. Ifhis bus did not run, he did not eat. On the other hand, if the inside of his bus wastorn apart by senseless fighting, he would not eat very well either.

Such "superiority" was frequently punished by beatings,even by death

She imitated his gesture, pointing toward the bus with her own left hand, thenpunching the air with both fists.

She returned his gaze, very much aware of the old forty-five automatic her jacketconcealed. She watched his hands

but if there was shooting, she wanted theprotection of a tree. Thus, she was near the curb when a battered blue Ford on theother side of the street made a U-turn and pulled up in front of the bus

but under the heel of a regime that elevated armed robbery to a governing principle.

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This was hardly unusual. In 2001, the Associated Press published a three-part investigation into the theft of black-owned land stretching back to the antebellum period. The series documented some 406 victims and 24,000 acres of land valued at tens of millions of dollars. The land was taken through means ranging from legal chicanery to terrorism.

Many of Mississippi’s black farmers lived in debt peonage, under the sway of cotton kings who were at once their landlords, their employers, and their primary merchants.

man so far becomes degenerate, and declares himself to quit the principles of human nature, and to be a noxious creature, there is commonly injury done to some person or other, and some other man receives damage by his transgression

And if thy brother, a Hebrew man, or a Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee. And when thou sendest him out free from thee, thou shalt not let him go away empty: thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him. And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and the LORD thy God redeemed thee: therefore I command thee this thing today.