You were at the age where you could fall in love with a girl over an expression, over a gesture

“If you ask me I don't think there are any such things as curses. I think there …”

“To exhaustion and beyond they prayed, to that glittering place where the flesh …”

“That's about it. In the months that follow you bend to the work. Because it fee…”

“They say it came first from Africa, carried in the screams of the enslaved; tha…”