That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun look…

Kathryn Stockett
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That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.
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Ugly live up on the inside. Ugly be a hurtful, mean person. ✨ Kathryn Stockett (2009). The Help, p.73, Penguin

That was the day my whole world went black. Air looked black. Sun looked black. I laid up in bed and stared at the black walls of my house….Took three months before I even looked out the window, see the world still there. I was surprised to see the world didn’t stop.

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