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Here is an excerpt from a book I recently read, "Brown Girl Dreaming," by Jacqueline Woodson.

The first time I write my full name 

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson 

without anybody’s help 

on a clean white page in my composition notebook, 

I know 

if I wanted to I could write anything. 

Letters becoming words, words gathering meaning, becoming thoughts outside my head 

becoming sentences 

written by 

Jacqueline Amanda Woodson