Pauline saw the beauty of life through the colors of her childhood down South. Her fondest memories were of purple berries, yellow lemonade, and "that streak of green them june bugs made on the trees the night we left down home. All them colors was in me"1. Pauline and Cholly left the colors of the South when they moved north to Ohio to begin their life together. Through Cholly, Pauline hoped to find those colors …showed first 75 words of 1472 total…

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