"Darby Goes into the Army" part 2
Dear Grandma, will visit soon. On a hitchhiking trip before leaving to the Army, Michigan and memories before going off to maybe play soldier at war.
She had raged for a half hour about the girl next door being Black. Her dad was a “dirt poor farmer on land that was not even his! What was I thinking? Was she my girlfriend, God Forbid!” She screamed at Darby relentlessly as he denied she was a girlfriend kissing, but she was so upset, so loud, as he ran into the bedroom, telling him how wrong it was t…
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