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“Not that bad, we don’t. I told her, I said, ‘Celia, you have to be a League member or a sustainer to participate.’ What does she think the Jackson League is? Open rush?”

She wearing a white lace blouse buttoned up like a nun

I reckon I thought that’s what it was.

some ham, make a little gravy for my biscuit

but he was slow bout things like that.

A church baby we like to call it.

Taking care a white babies, that’s what I do, along with all the cooking and the cleaning. I done raised seventeen kids in my lifetime.

you don’t hit on her children. White people like to do their own spanking.”