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She studied the fine lines and loops, commas and periods that had come between them, and they etched themselves into her mind.
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These young men always moved in a pack, or never without two or three. They needed the others continually near to verify their existence.
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In short, his entire life became a race against the natural--and he was winning.
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She ain't gotta worry about going on to hell. Hell was right now. Daddy always said that folks misread the Bible. Couldn't be no punishment worse than having to live here on earth, he said.
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In Linden Hills they could forget that the world said you spelled black with a capital nothing. Well, they were something and there was everything around them to show it. The world hadn't given them anything but the chance to fail -- and they hadn't failed, because they were in Linden Hills. They had a thousand years and a day to sit right there and forget what it meant to be black, because it meant working yourself to death just to stand s..
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