"She liberated me from a society that would have had me think of myself as the lower of the low. She liberated me to life. And from that time to this… - Maya Angelou

What sets one Southern town apart from another, or from a Northern town or hamlet, or city high-rise? The answer must be the experience shared between the unknowing majority (it) and the knowing minority (you). All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood.

He watched her every move and when she left the room, his eyes allowed her reluctantly to go.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.