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Here are a few excerpts from a book I recently read, "The Color Purple," by Alice Walker.

Dear God, I am fourteen years old. I am I have always been a good girl. Maybe you can give me a sign letting me know what is happening to me.

Don’t let them run over you, Nettie say. You got to let them know who got the upper hand. 

They got it, I say. 

But she keep on, You got to fight. You got to fight. 

But I don’t know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.

I say, Write. 

She say, What? 

I say, Write. 

She say, Nothing but death can keep me from it. 

She never write.