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~]~ii1d, I wiah I could call back dem daysi ~ma said people lived so much longer because they took care of themselves.

“All dis here education a& people juet now got it.“

~Jt4~_~ Do you think, Mrs . Harris~ education has helped our ra ce?

“Well, child, I don‘~no‘~ volke are eo indifferent now I am afraid to say.
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Pehaw. . Colored folks now, some are messy~~don‘t know how to be polite .

~	11 Ta iking about 1ightning~ days, It s lightning at every bod.ys ~hou ~e . Lord have

~	mercy on dese here young folks and deliber me from the plantation5l pray.

~ O •	“Courting dem days wuz like every-thing I re&n you all do now *adays.

~	~ou promise to‘bey the rnari,~,but before you. finish~ its cussing,Honey.

In olden days husbands loved. Sho ~od ~
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them and they had to stay home cause it YJuz always a. new baby. I tell you~Mise Sue, man ought not never had you to find history ~ause you gwine tell it all.

~	A~ I said, we loved • Is ~ ~e young fo Iks marrying fur love? Dey don ‚ t stay to~.
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~	gether long enough to warm~iand6. We went to church together and. praisei God; ~ led prayer meetings and,yes siree,would feel good.

~.	Now you aLl done start opening theatreson Sunday. Miss Sue, all dat stuff

~ .	you putting down wi Il sure make the man laugh.