She’s got a gap in her teeth like Mama’s too. That’s how you can tell that she’s a Black girl. But in the back of her head, she’s got a kitchen. Lydia’s hair is long, too, but won’t hold a curl. Her hair’s like Mama’s, and it grows real long. Her nose is wide like Mama’s, and she’s real short, too. Coco’s eyes and skin match, like caramel candy. I got red in my skin under- neath the brown like my granny. She makes her hair straight with a hot comb and blue grease. Mama’s dark like chocolate and little and pretty. Daddy’s got brown eyes, but he looks like a white man. I’m happy listening to the radio, but then that I’m full of breakfast, and my mama and sister smell real good, Then, we are in the station wagon, I’m sitting between Lydia and Mama. She promises she will be well behaved and try not to be rude. She wants to stay with Miss Rose to help make preserves. But Coco don’t want to go to town.ĭoesn’t. It’s time for the grocery store, ’cause Mama ain’t gone eat folks
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