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You made me feel like the most beautiful black boy in the history of Mississippi until you didn’t.
Even though her touch was rough and yours was gentle, when either of you touched me, it all felt like love until it didn’t. Then it felt like dying.
And the biggest problem was police weren’t the only people doing the shooting. They were just the only people allowed to walk around and threaten us with guns and prison if they didn’t like our style of flying. I loved our style of flying.
America seems filled with violent people who like causing people pain but hate when those people tell them that pain hurts.
Don’t eat when you sad, though. I’m serious. Don’t eat or drank or gamble when you sad. Pray. Or talk to me. Or exercise. Or just go to bed. You letting all this shit kill you. That’s exactly what they want,” Ray Gunn said. “Trust me. I been there. You my boy, but you might wanna think about transferring. Ain’t nothing fantastic about where you at. Switch that shit up. Be a switch hitter.”
I learned you haven’t read anything if you’ve only read something once or twice. Reading things more than twice was the reader version of revision.