#656 Red-Winged Blackbirds- J. California Cooper
This is a story about taking control of your own life. A girl is orphaned when her mother and father are killed by the KKK. Her father had just stood up to the father of the boy that tried to rape the girl, and that set their fate.
She didn’t let anyone take her, but lived under the school until she was old enough to get a job. After working for a diner she made herself a proprietor of a boarding house. She had what she wanted, all except a child. She wouldn’t have a child of her own, so she set out to find one that needed a mother.
“I was scared for her, but I was proud of her! I like people who take control over their own life! Don’t just let life happen to them…but fight back to have some say-so of their own, bout their own life.”
If we can choose our own paths, and choose our own jobs, why not choose our own families? The most powerful thing we can do is make our own decisions.
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