“We are good at stories. We hoard them, like an old woman in a room full of boxes, but now and then we pull out our best, and spread them out. We talk of the bad years when the cotton didn’t open, and the day my cousin Wanda was washed in the Blood. We buff our beloved ancestors until they are smooth of sin, and give our scoundrels a hard shake, although sometimes we can’t remember exactly which is who.”
— Rick Bragg
Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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Verbal eye candy! Luv the line, “We buff our beloved ancestors ’til they are smooth of sin.”
It’s true, isn’t it?
Rick Bragg is good, one of my inspirations along the way.