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We walked to the school and everybody wanted to know what happened.
We told them what happened and they weren't that surprised that we tried to do that
School was over then we had to walk back to our houses to make some food or something like that. I went to the store to get some food for dinner we had chicken and some soup. On the way to the store i saw some of the black folks out on the street but i said nothing to them.

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