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	“Śrandriia said. she had a hard tiras aU her 1if~e. She was my mother‘ s mother and she lived to be way over a huzidred years old. Aunt Polly lived with her daughter when she got old. Grandma died first. Then Aunt Pofly grieved so. She was old, old when she died. They still lived close together, mo8tly together. Aunt Polly was real black; r~ax~ia was lighter. I called grandma ‘m~iaa‘ a right ~nart too. They called each other ‘sis‘. Grandma said, ‚ I love sis so good. ‚ Aunt Polly lessened her days grieving for sis. They was both field hands. They would tell us girls about how they lived when they was 4rls. We‘d cry.

	“We lived in the country and we listened to what they said to us. If it had been t ines then like now I wouldn‘ t know to tell you • Folks is in such a hurry somehow. Gone or going soraewhere all the time.

	“All my folks is most all full..blood African. I don‘t believe in races x~iixing up. It is a sin. Gmndma was the brightest one of any of us. She was ~in~er-~cake color.

	“No, I don‘t vote. I don‘t believe in that neither.

	“Ti.nies is too fast. Fast folks ia~ikes fast times. They all fast, Corning to destruction.“