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See, I know how they do. White folks like to stay in those books. They carry and they keep and they dig in their books, like nothing matters that don__ get written in some book somewhere. Like that__ the only way they can know for sure what happened. They__l write down who they are and what they did. And their daddies and theirs too. Put it all in a book, then close it up and put it on the shelf. Just to know it__ there so they can sleep at night. Like if they don__ get written down somewhere and they shut their eyes for a minute, they might disappear.
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See, I know how they do. White folks like to stay in those books. They carry and they keep and they dig in their books, like nothing matters that don__ get written in some book somewhere. Like that__ the only way they can know for sure what happened. They__l write down who they are and what they did. And their daddies and theirs too. Put it all in a book, then close it up and put it on the shelf. Just to know it__ there so they can sleep at night. Like if they don__ get written down somewhere and they shut their eyes for a minute, they might disappear.

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