my brother was a faint memory but paabo's second wife remained a source of content more than half a century later. she was no devil, daisy mae said of her stepmother, she was mean. she never had any children of her own. i was something she felt like she wanted to beat on she did it. poppa didn't know about all of that. i never told him. i don't blame him. he was a good souls. poppa's alstom the quarters in a vernacular pass from slavery referring to the original slave quarters. the house had two rooms, it could run and catch all rumors people slept on the sofa bed and the family ate meals and socialized. they raised a little bit of everything. mustard greens, turnips and okra, chicken, hogs and turkey my grandmother said most of the time we had agreed to go along with royce and gravy. big families were the norm. school children walked half an hour each way to attend school in franklin, the closest town. my grandmother wanted to be a nurse but quit school in the eighth grade to help on the plantation. add the sugar ground mill turned nonstop october through january until it was dismantled in