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...family was there. I talked to them on the phone. They were calm, supporting one another; my great aunt told me things would hit her later--when she was home alone. But Grandma and Granddaddy, assorted aunts and uncles were there then. It was okay...
...write a card to my great aunt, a column to my friends, and try to do by proxy the duty that distance prohibits me from doing in person...
Michele wishes now that she had grown up in her squalid Haitian birth city of Port-de-Paix. When she was a young girl, her impoverished parents sent her to live with her more affluent aunt and uncle in Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, with the promise of a better future. She got instead an old mattress in a closet, 18 hours a day of cooking, cleaning and waiting on her aunt's large family, and years of beatings and sexual abuse by her cousins. Her slavery continued when, a few years later, she was forced to emigrate with...
...talk of this middle-aged couple is usually contentious; rancor stains the air of their modest North Carolina home. But when Aunt Ruth hears a tune on the radio, she softens into nostalgia. "Do you remember the first time we made love to this song?" she asks. "We were out in that field? You buried me in that grass." But Ruth can't utter a simple sentence without her husband Damascus' hearing blame in it. So he says, "Why is it that every time we start talking, you sound like you gonna...
...1970s, he came to Atlanta to visit his aunt, who owned rental property across the street from the grandmother of his future wife. Phyllis, an Atlanta native, was not impressed by their five minutes of chitchat. Still, a few months later, when Derwin returned to look at Atlanta University's graduate program, he asked her to show him around. Phyllis took him to a college sorority party. "It was love at second sight," she says. They married in 1977, and two years later, Derwin went to work for the DeKalb police department...