“Walter Swanson, hat in hand, delivered the news to her on Sunday evening, half an hour after Colin took Charity home.Felicia spent a sleepless, tearful night asking God why this was happening, what His plan was now, how she was to proceed. But if He answered, she couldn’t hear, perhaps because of the waves of fear that crashed over her again and again throughout the torturous hours before dawn.Early on Monday morning, she rose, washed herself, dressed, and walked to the schoolhouse well before ...any of the children would arrive. She collected her few personal items from the teacher’s desk, then looked around the classroom while trying to swallow the lump in her throat.In her mind, she pictured different children cleaning the blackboards at the end of the school day. She heard the youngest students reading from their primers, stumbling over words, grinning widely when they got things right. She saw R. J. Franklin, tall, handsome, so ready to break out of school and start living as an adult.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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