“She slipped into the booth beside me. ‘I have to tell you…
“She slipped into the booth beside me. ‘I have to tell you something…I made up my mind if I ever saw you again, I’d tell you… …Listen to me. I really did think she was black. I didn’t make that up. I really thought so. But now I can’t be sure. I remember her as old, so old. And because she couldn’t talk — well, you know, I thought she was crazy. She’d been brought up in an institution like my mother was and like I thought I would be too. And you were right. We didn’t kick her. It was the gar girls. Only them. But, well, I wanted to. I really wanted them to hurt her. I said we did it, too. You and me, but that’s not true. And I don’t want you to carry that around. It was just that I wanted to do it so bad that day — wanting to is doing it.'”
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