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Stay fit and live long and prosper, but write your own obituary now, while you can, just in case.
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mississippi
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Jill Conner Browne |
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In a little while they were kissing. In a little while longer, they made their slow sweet love. The iron bed sounded like a pine forest in an ice storm, like a switch track in a Memphis trainyard, like the sweet electrical thunder of habitual love and the tragical history of the constant heart. Auntee finished first, and then Uncle soon after, and their lips were touching lightly as they did. The rain was still falling and the scritch owl was still asleep and the dragonflies were hidden like jewels somewhere in deep brown wet grasses, nobody knew where. Uncle rolled away from his wife and held onto her hand, never let it go, old friend, old partner, passionate wife.
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sorrow
mississippi
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Lewis Nordan |
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In the 1920s, Jim Crow Mississippi was, in all facets of society, a kleptocracy.
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jim-crow
jim-crow-laws
kleptocracy
mississippi-history
segregation
black-history
us-history
mississippi
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |
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Roy Dale suspected that Mississippi was beautiful. He wasn't sure. He didn't have anything to compare it to. He hadn't even ever been out of the Delta.
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mississippi
traveling
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Lewis Nordan |
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Between 1882 and 1968, more black people were lynched in MIssissippi than in any other state.
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19th-century
mississippi-history
1968
lynching
american-history
black-history
us-history
mississippi
20th-century
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Ta-Nehisi Coates |