Drum Major Monologue

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having babies before they could finish high school. Many of the words of our “Drum Major” were turned into echoes from our past.

Joshua: Mom… who was out “Drum Major?

Patricia: Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King.

Joshua: Oh… Is he still our “Drum Major”?

Patricia: We will talk about that later, for now back to that warm summer day in 1978.I was wearing a pretty sundress with red flowers with blue birds and butterflies. After the evening meal, Brandon your father car pulls up in our front yard, in his red mustang. It was shiny looked like new.

Brandon: Patricia…. Do you want to go for a ride with me down to the lake?

Patricia: The song by Smoky Robinson was playing on his car radio, I yelled back to him from the porch, where are the others...

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