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 | | Alice McGee and Laura came into my office one day, and said, "You know, the book club is really popular, and we know how much you love books. |
 | | The fact that someone as poor as I, as Black as I, from the South, from rape, from confusion, could move to hope, to possibility, and to victory, could be written about in a real book that I had chosen in the library was amazing to me. Authors could do that, with the word. |
 | | Recently Alice came to me and said she had a book that she wanted me to read. |
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