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This one is for
The 1619 Project.

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I was asked to contribute
a poem and found

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that this voice speaking
out to me, wanting to speak,

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the speaker is one of
the four young girls who

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were at the 16th Street Baptist
Church in Birmingham, Alabama

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the day that it was bombed.

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"Youth Sunday."

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This morning's already good.

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Summer's cooling, Addie
chattering like a magpie.

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But today we are leading
the congregation.

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Ain't that a fine thing?

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All in white, like
angels, they'll

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be sighing when we appear
at the pulpit and proclaim,

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open your hymnals.

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Addie, what's the
page number, again?

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Never mind, it'll be
posted, I think, I hope.

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Hold still, Carole, or else
the sash will never sit right.

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There.

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Now you do mine.

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Almost 11:00.

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I'm ready.

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My, don't we look--

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what's that word the Reverend
used in last Sunday's sermon?

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Oh, I got it.

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Ethereal."

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