My mother named her daughters after the virtuous women in the Bible; Abigail, Rachel and Maria (also known as Mary) and her sons, well since we hail from one book and one womb, she named them David, Elijah, Michael and Emmanuel…our house was the home of great and holy people until the day Elijah was arrested for stealing Otis’bicycle.
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Things went south after Elijah stole the bicycle. Mother felt that everyone was a disgrace. She wanted to hide from the whole world and my father’s words made her even angrier. We saw a side of Ma that we had never seen. Behind that saint, was a veil that hid a monster ready to attack and hurt the people close to her.
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