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I was leaving the South to fling myself into the unknown . . .

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Somewhere in the dead of the southern night my life had switched onto the wrong track and without my knowing it.
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Goddamnit, look! We live here and they live there.
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We smelted iron, danced, made music and folk poems; we sculpted, worked in glass, spun cotton and wool, wove baskets and cloth.
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I was not leaving the south to forget the south, but so that some day I might understand it
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