Someone kept me from drowning, when I fell into the water.
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Class and race play a big part in it and it's bad communication on the part of the bureaucracy also.Rose Johnson
She would stand sometimes hours to get her correct change back. We would stay there and wait.
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When I was a girl, all we knew was this neighborhood, ... The beaches were whites only. So Turkey Creek is where we went to fish, pick blackberries, recreate. Oftentimes you could see old people walking down to Turkey Creek with their cane poles in their hands. Churches had no pools inside for baptisms thenwe all walked down to the creek and waited until the crowd got there.
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I had time on my hands.
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I had to explain what wetlands are, ... We call them swamps. But wetlands are natural sponges, and we need them to absorb water, to filter pollutants.
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The more often I came home, the more trees were gone. It was like my childhood was being eviscerated. There was another OfficeMax or Wal-Mart. This is not my home, I said. I felt in my heart the loss of Turkey Creek. But I think a more dangerous issue is the displacement of our culture.
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