I don’t think I could speak for hours and when I finally did, I asked Danny to distract me. To tell me something good, anything that made him happy. “He told me about you,” she says, looking me in the eye. “This girl he’d met who’d dropped her suitcase in the street and then popped up in one of his classes. She had this sweet Southern drawl. He said that reminded him of me.” Minnie laughs and wipes at tears as they fall. “He was excited about this girl because she loved the same movies he did, movies no one else in his class gave the time of day.” She looks out the window at her boy, and a
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