Anywhere But Here
"People would tell us kids one day those populated cities would swallow up our little town like a big ole' catfish. I didn't believe them none, and I still don't even after leaving there. That town is a sad town. No city folk with their big dreams would dare set foot on that red dirt with building plans for a shopping mall. Anything born there was destined to fail."
Delilah looks back on her senior year of high-school in Bigelow, Arkansas. Delilah had grown up there and seen the town for what it was; a wasteland. No one in her family had ever made it out of that town, and she was determined to be the first one.
Delilah looks back on her senior year of high-school in Bigelow, Arkansas. Delilah had grown up there and seen the town for what it was; a wasteland. No one in her family had ever made it out of that town, and she was determined to be the first one.
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1. The Sad Town
"I blamed that hot river valley for my spotted skin." -
2. The Morning Routine
"I hated the way I spoke. It made me sound like one of them redneck hillbilly characters all them Californian television stations would make up and put on their shows for people to laugh at them."