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I know a lie when I hear one. Especially when white folks try it.
When you lie, you gotta sound like you don’t care with it. Like you just be saying stuff just to say it, and if people don’t believe you then they stupid.
Time doesn’t heal most wounds. If you’re lucky, time distracts you long enough so that you can forget.
“If you was really tryna read, that’s where you’d be. You wanted me to see you, Butterscotch. Don’t front.”
I wished for the same thing I always wished for. Happiness.
“You were already like a daughter to me, Caprice. Everything I ever wanted in a daughter, really. When I realized just how much my son loved you—” My mother glanced at me before looking back at Caprice, and I knew what she was about to say. “I realized that it was only a matter of time before you really would be.”