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Elbow Room Quotes

"But Gweneth Lawson was above regional idealization. Though I might have loved her partly because she was a Northerner, I loved her more because of the world of colors that seemed to be suspended above her head. I loved her glowing forehead and I loved her bright, dark brown eyes; I loved the black braids, the red and blue and sometimes yellow and pink ribbons; I loved the way the deep, rich brown of her neck melted into the pink or white cloth of her Peter Pan collar; I loved the lemony vapor on which she floated and from which, on occasion, she seemed to be inviting me to be buoyed up, up, up into her happy world." Why I like Country Music, pg. 13.

"'One of us knowed he had to die,' he announced calmly. 'Next time, it might be me.' "'You common street nigger!' Chelseia shouted. "Billy held...
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