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Portrait
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All of my imaginings about Melody
were like sketch drawings in comparison to the vividness of her.
And I imagined a lot, but not her warmth, her sweetness,
her love for her family, her plans to go into space engineering.
She laughed from her belly and it would shake her whole body.
She hummed when impatient, she cursed loudly
when she was happy. I collected all these moments of her,
filled in my thought sketches with color and texture, painted her
portrait
in my mind. I don't ever want to fo
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― You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs
― You've Got a Place Here, Too: An Anthology of Black Love Stories Set at HBCUs
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...of his family that he should be painted; he consented at length for his children's sake, but was disturbed when the portrait arrived: "I was but too much taken with my own shadow when it came home; but then I thought, a man should study both to be blameless and eminently active, that presumes to leave a picture behind him. If it put in mind of evil or of no good done by him, it is to little or bad purpose." The extreme Puritan would have rejected the idea of a portrait out of hand as a mortal
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― The English Face
― The English Face
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