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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.
:33:30
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.
:33:50
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.
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They have instructions to continue
the road for another 30 miles...
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...and continue it right
through the village of Olinka.
:34:25
The road builders didn't deviate
an inch from the head man's plan.
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Every hut that lay in the road's path...
:34:33
...was leveled.
:34:35
Celie, our church, our school...
:34:39
...my hut...
:34:41
...went down in a matter of hours.
:34:54
But the worst is yet to be told.
:34:57
Sweet Corrine...
died from fever and grief.