Word: scars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little difficult to take without a grain of salt, but most of them are all the more shocking because they're believable. Maya Angelou, the writer and poet, was raped by her mother's boyfriend at the age of seven, an experience which obviously left something of a scar. Liberace says he "thinks he was raped" at the age of 13 by "a big chesty broad who sang blues songs," and Lou Rawls was practically raped at the same age by an obese woman who was a member of the church where Rawls was singing: "I think I balled...
...knock-kneed mini skirted wig wearing died blond mamma's scar born dead my scorn your whore rough heeled broken nailed powdered face...
With her back to the large mirror she held the one small one so that she could see her back. A shiny, pale pink seam ran down the lower part of her spine; near the top of her left buttock, the crescent scar where they'd taken the bone for the spinal fusion matched the large seam in color. She shivered. In the six years since the operation she had never looked at her naked back...
...small, round badge of courage is on his back: the puckered scar left by a bullet wound. He is proud of the scar, and prouder still that he can shrug it off as an accepted part of his lifestyle. "Almost everybody's been shot," smiles the 19-year-old black youth known as "Bartender," a leader of one of the street gangs that flourish in the Los Angeles area...
...scar of unexpected successes for many Crimson squads, the baseball team was an unexpected failure. The team never seemed to put its heart into the game...