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There is a little African
girl called Tashi.
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She plays with Olivia.
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"Why can't Tashi come
to school?" she asked.
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I told her the Olinka don't
believe in educating girls.
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She said, quick as a flash:
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"Like white people at home who
won't let black people learn."
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She is sharp, Celie.
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When Tashi can get away
from her chores...
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...she and Olivia hide in my hut.
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To Olivia right now,
Tashi alone is Africa....
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Everything she learns, she shares
with Tashi. Sound familiar?
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At first, there was the faintest
sound of movement in the forest.
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A kind of low humming. Then
chopping and the sound of dragging.
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Then the scent.
Some days there's smoke.
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Now, after 2 months during
which I or the children...
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...or Corrine has been sick...
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...all we hear is chopping
and scrapping and dragging.
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Every day we smell smoke.
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Today a boy in my afternoon
class burst out as he entered...
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"The road approaches!"
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Dear Celie, the white
man is building a road.
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It reached the casava
fields 9 months ago.
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The morning after, the road was done
as far as Olinka was concerned.
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But we discovered that the
road builders were back.