The Beauty of Staying Together

Claiming to have been beaten in prison with a jagged edged water hose, his hatred grew for those in authority. Feeling powerless to do anything to better conditions not only for himself, but for all Black people, Duane set out to secretly level the playing ground by committing carefully thought-out crimes that would have the authorities puzzled and for which he'd never be caught.

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Calvina

Calvina was uptight all of the time. She felt stupid, clumsy and always out of place except when with her best friend, Annette. She refused to see anything positive in her life as she was consumed with hatred for her height and self-pity because of the rejection she'd received from her biological father. Calvina was a thumb-sucker and a bed-wetter who secretly loathed waking to a pissy bed each morning. She'd fall asleep in class from sitting and trying to stay awake at night so she'd be able to go to the bathroom when she felt the urge. She suffered through name-calling daily at school and so it became a place she was forced to go to that only added more misery to her already miserable life.

Calvina joined a church early in life and tried to console herself that God loved her if nobody else did. But as miserable as she was, she soon turned on God, blaming Him for her misery. After all, if He was all-knowing and cared so much for her, why didn't He do something?