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Sanders, Kay / That red dirt road
(2010)
Blood kin, p. 18
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Blood Kin I don't remember when I realized that a white rose worn on the lapel for Mother's Day meant, in our small country church, that your mother was dead, but when my mother told me to pick two white roses from Aunt Lillie's bush outside the front room window and two roses from the red bush, I knew that my sister and I would wear the red, and I knew that thorns from both would prick my fingers, draw blood. 18
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