Country Boy Monologue

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a few black boys when with white girls. when the whites people found out about it, the girl would always say, the black boy make her do it.if the black boy wanted to live another day, he had to leave town that night and never came back again. sometimes the boy’s family suffer for his action. it was and still is a small town, everyone knew everybody black and white, but we didn 't go to school together.
3. It was a good place to live and grow up. I am so glad I was raised there, after I saw how other kids was raised and lived. I didn’t mind being a country boy (smile). My family and I lived in a two room house. no running water and no indoor bathroom. one room was for cooking and eating, the other room was for sleeping. there were no gas, mother cooked on a wood stove and the house was
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you may not under- stand what i am saying, but in the late 50s and 60s that’s the way things was in north carolina and the south. by now, i am playing high school ball very well, any kind of ball, football, basketball, volleyball and basaball. there are two coaches i have to say thank you a lot for being the second father and coach in my life.coach wallance and coach mack.
21. we had to play basketball outside on the ground, we didn’t get an indoor gym until i was in my junior year in high school. we also got a eat-in dinning hall at school that same year.lunch was $.25 cent. we had a town baseball team, we played every sunday.the field was right behine our church. all the small towns around had teams.we would play each other every sunday. at the games the home team would sell b-bbq sandwiches and boot-leg-lq.(white lighting).it was a time for people to see how you played and for the girls to see how you looked(smile).
22. i am at john b.bond high school 8th grade.we only stay there for one year,i played football and base

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