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My great-grandmama told my grandmama . . . and my grandmama told my mama what they both lived through and my mama told me what they all lived through and we suppose to pass it down like that from generation to generation so we'd never forget.

Source: Corregidora, 1975.
-- Gayl Jones, (Nov 23 1949-____), US short story writer, novelist; She has a particular interest in black oral culture; her short stories and novels, notably Corregidora, 1977, capture the black idiom.

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