Archive for January, 2009

Jan 29 2009

Choosing Among Children

Published by linda under personal

Corneille will never forget the night she left her aunt’s house to fetch water and was attacked and raped. She’d crawled back to her aunt’s house and said nothing, ashamed.
She says that her baby, named Joy, is the only brightness in her future. Corneille is 13 years old.
Some mothers get to choose what their children […]

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Jan 19 2009

[Not] The Last Public Hanging in America

Published by linda under opinion, personal

 5:21 a.m. Twenty thousand men, women and children parted like the Red Sea to let the young man pass by.
Flanked by deputies and followed by a Catholic priest, Rainey Bethea passed through the crowd. He stopped at the base of the platform to pull on clean new socks.
Slowly, the 22 year old climbed the 13 steps […]

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