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Dorothy Allison · 1992
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Shame branded on a child's body by poverty, bastardy, and abuse becomes the ground from which identity must be wrested.
shame
Watch her eyes and how they sink into her face, the lines that grow out from that tight stubborn mouth—an't there sin enough, grief enough, inch by inch of p…
ALL-BOC-RC-014The new house wasn't new. It looked just like the last three—small and close and damp-smelling no matter how many times Mama aired it out.
ALL-BOC-RC-063trauma-and-survival
I knew from the way she was touching me that if I had not come to her, she would never have taken me into her arms. I shuddered under that unfeeling palm.
ALL-BOC-RC-195Raylene just harrumphed and picked me up like a baby doll, not looking at the photographer waiting outside.
ALL-BOC-RC-231self-and-identity
It had taken me years to figure out how to stand in a room with people who knew my story and not collapse or try to hide or to lie.
ALL-BOC-RC-243You're a Boatwright, Bone, even if you are the strangest girl-child we got.
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