I didn”t want to make my blessing off of nobody”s misfortune… but I took on to Raynell like she was all them babies I had wanted and never had. I grabbed hold of it with both hands.By the time Raynell came into the house, me and your daddy had done lost touch with one another. But that”s what life offered me in the way of being a woman and I took it. It was my life and I didn”t have to live it like that. I took on his life as mine and mixed up the pieces so that you couldn”t hardly tell which was which anymore. I didn”t know to keep up his strength I had to give up little pieces of mine. When your Daddy walked through the house he was so big he filled it up. One of them empty spaces was being somebody”s mother.I married your daddy and settle down to cooking his supper and keeping clean sheets on the bed. Here is a man that can fill all them empty spaces you been tipping around the edges of. But when he walked up to me and said, “I can dance a waltz that”ll make you dizzy,” I thought, Rose Lee, here is a man that you can open yourself up to and be filled to bursting. I was thirty years old and had done seen my share of men.
That”s the first thing I thought when I seen him. And sometimes when he took me in his arms he cut.When I first met your daddy I thought… Here is a man I can lay down with and make a baby. I don”t know if he was right or wrong… but I do know he meant to do more good than he meant to do harm. Your daddy wanted you to be everything he wasn”t… and at the same time he tried to make you into everything he was. That”s all you got to measure yourself against that world out there. But that”s all you got to make life with. You either got to grow into it or cut it down to fit you. That shadow wasn”t nothing but you growing into yourself. ROSE: You can”t be nobody but who you are, Cory.
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