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My parents were kind of over protective people. Me and my sister had to play in the backyard all the time. They bought us bikes for Christmas but wouldn't let us ride in the street, we had to ride in the backyard. Another Christmas, my dad got me a basketball hoop and put it in the middle of the law
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
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