... family get together party. We had very fun time and everybody was enjoying each other's company. But that night, my mom turned on the light and said she heard a weird noise; the noise was coming from my grandmother's room. It sounded like my grandmother was choking and could not say a word. As I entered my grandmother's room, I lost my mind, thoughts and ability ... to move because I have never seen my grandmother in such pain and there were white bubbles around her mouth and yet she was trying to say something but her voice was muted ... ...

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... room, my Aunt Ramona, which takes care of grandma, stopped us both, and said that my grandma was very sick, and she did not want any noise, and all she wanted was to be left alone. But as my twin and I went to our bedroom, which was just right in front of my grandmothers ... truly hers". I thought, her sister? when did this happen? Of what I had known my grandmother Amelia was the only child. My grandma's father was no white sheep, on the contrary he was quite a bad man. He was part of the movement that was against all Indian people from Mexico, and his true job was ... grandma's mothe...

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Two electroshocks and a flash was what I experienced when I was lying on my low-rise stone-hard bed. A white flash passed as I unconsciously kept opening my eyes. I took no notice to it as the images were fed to my brain like bits of ... . A sixth sense told me that something weird would happen today, but that was normal. Every day was weird. I got ready for school and went out of the white, heavy wooden main door which had a very unique design and pattern printed on it. As I waited for the lift, I studied the indicator buttons, which would have ... stood outside the gates and was studying t...

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... lives were transformed into ghostly rubble, it was impossible not to feel the bone-deep chill of old comforts, old priorities and old confidences being wiped away. Even the familiar white noise of American life, the omnipresent hum of commerce was hushed into a stunned silence. In the quiet that descended on that Tuesday, music, too, lost its voice. A handful of Alternative radio ... ...

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... room I have ever seen looked like a room that had been abandoned for years. As I walked up the crackling stairs, to the second floor of the old beaten down brown and white house, I came to a room. Slowly, I walked inside. The brown door that had yellow speckles where paint had chipped off closed behind me, left me standing in one of the most ... turned into an uproarious room. The room sounded like a blaring stereo: from the bugs crawling and flying, to the crackling of the old wooden floors. All of a sudden, I heard a familiar noise. It was as if my teacher took her nails and scrapped ...

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... always followed all made me cringe with hatred. You didn't dare make a sound as you were being whipped, either. For you would be whipped even more and harder for any noise you made. Working in the house was very difficult, also. The Master and Mistress were always aware of my presence and had direct contact with me on a daily basis. Any ... day. There was a way to overcome the monsters that had stolen our lives and freedoms as human beings. The children wouldn't have to walk around any more wondering why the white children had beautiful names like Katherine Anne Freed and they responded...

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