Thursday, May 03, 2012

THEME THURSDAY

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Theme Thursday: Agree

False Pretenses by KATHY HERMAN

"She studied the sepia photograph that hung in an oval frame in the nook leading to the kitchen. Ethan's great-grandparents, Chester and Augusta Langley, were the last to reside in the manor house and chose to demolish all the outbuildings. They recorded in their Bible that those structures were reminders of a time when people had "wrongfully prospered on the backs of slaves."

His grandparents agreed about the slavery issue.



1 comment:

Yvonne said...

I just downloaded this one to my Nook. It looks interesting.

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