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Feb 6, 2023Liked by ben woestenburg

PS Are you going to publish this as a whole?

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It was published as a whole years ago, but I don't think anyone read it. I'll join all the pieces together. But a Chapbook? Maybe not a bad idea? Maybe something I can offer PAID subscribers?

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Feb 6, 2023Liked by ben woestenburg

I love this story and look forward to each new chapter. I also write on the rollercoaster of black/white and am disappointed that so many readers deny my right to go there. Jim Crow, under whose dire wings I lived, affected everybody in its path, and it cut quite a swath. And today is still very much alive in its transmuted form. Bravo.

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The memories of childhood will forever be tainted with the Civil Rights protests and the Viet Nam war.

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I was a child before the Civil Rights protests. My childhood was marred by the lives of people I loved who were either victims of intolerance or perpetrators of it. I drank the Kool-Aid till I was about 6. Then I opened my eyes . . .

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I grew up in Canada, in BC, just twenty minutes from the US/CAN border. Everything I saw was delivered on the CBS Evening news with Walter Cronkite. There was a reason my parents immigrated to Canada rather than the US. My father did not agree with the way the black man was treated south of the border.

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