I just finished reading "Song of Solomon", by Toni Morrison. Kristy had told me I would like it but I had never gotten around to actually reading the whole book. I could hardly put it down. I finished the last sentence just as the plane set down on my return trip from visiting my sister Kim.
Kristy made a notation of this passage, which I thought was so like her. She was still a teenager when she read this book but even back then she knew what she wanted.
"All Jewelry weighs it down. Like vanity. Can't nobody fly with all that shit. Wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down."
Kristy had certainly given it all up. And man, could she fly!
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