There could be five hundred... «Born A Crime»

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  dashitjeeves

  5 июня 2024

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  There could be five hundred rioters with a blockade of burning tires on the main road out of Eden Park, and my mother would say, “Get dressed. I’ve got to go to work. You’ve got to go to school.”
  “But aren’t you afraid?” I’d say. “There’s only one of you and there’s so many of them.”
  “Honey, I’m not alone,” she’d say. “I’ve got all of Heaven’s angels behind me.”
  “Well, it would be nice if we could see them,” I’d say. “Because I don’t think the rioters know they’re there.”
  She’d tell me not to worry. She always came back to the phrase she lived by: “If God is with me, who can be against me?” She was never scared. Even when she should have been.

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