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SHE UNDERSTANDS ME by LUCILLE CLIFTON

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First Line: IT IS ALL BLOOD AND BREAKING
Last Line: the same wound the same blood the same breaking
Subject(s): BLOOD; SLAVERY; SERFS;

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