... about something. My great, great grandma took me to a garden full of red roses because she would always have me go and get her some red roses from the roses patch we had. So we stayed there for a while then she said she had, had a surprise for me waiting in a little cottage near a stream. So I went into the cottage to see ... what she had for me. I stepped into the cottage and saw her holding a teddy bear. The teddy bear was white with a red ribbon around the teddy bears neck in a bow. She said that if I ever needed to talk to her about anything, anything at all to talk to bear and ... ...

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... . But Dee and her mother had different views on the situation. Dee's mother said that Maggie has worked on these quilts and if they start to wear out, she could patch them up. Dee thought of them more as treasures then as just quilts, but it took her a long time to realize the value that the quilts actually had. Alice Walker ... mind. The mother herself represents the oppression of African American people. The fact that she only had a second grade education demonstrated that she did not have the same opportunities as a white man. She is portrayed as the strong willed African American wom...

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... could not have painted a more elegant scene. Like a well-polished gymnast, I would walk along the edge of the rock fence that extended far past the wildflower patch, just to see Betsy, my favorite black and white jersey cow. She loved eating out of my hand, and still vivid in my thoughts is the feel of the wet, slimy slobber Betsy gave me ... ...

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