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Weekly Contest #45
CHAPTER 1: THE PEFSONAL IS POLITICAL My father’s favorite instrument of punishment: six feet of rubber hose. He doubled it in his hand and brought it down hard. It gave off a “swoosh” before branding my flesh with U-shaped bruises. One summer day at our church Vacation Bible School when I was twelve I lifted my shirt to show a friend the welts I had received the night before. Miss Davis, a teacher, saw the blue-red wounds all over my back and blurted, “What in the world happened to you?” I pulled my shirt down, glanced at her, and said not...
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