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Submitted to Contest #43
Growing up in a large family, the fourth son born out of ten children, he being of the darkest complexion of them all. His parents were from Baton Rouge, both parents born in the early 1920's, where that old southern mentality was the only way of life.It was understood that a woman's place was in the home and the sole responsibility of the father was to earn a living to support the family, other than that there was no interaction with his father other than the beatings as a result of false information relayed to his father by his mother. Sub...
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