In my last blog, I wrote of being commanded by the land owner, “H”, to set up one of my older sisters to have sex, and if I told anyone he would kill me. I was shocked to the level that I do not remember what I said or done afterward. Thinking back over how he befriended me prior to the command, I was set up for the occasion. I do not recollect being around “H” from that day forward. Because of circumstances below his command never happened.

I was approaching my 16 birthday and a junior in high school. My twin sisters, 3 years older, had already finished high school and were preparing to move away. Sharecropping had ended because of mechanization. My stepfather had already hired on with a pulp wood company as a woodcutter. We moved away from H’s farm during my junior year in high school.

Above all, I give God all the praise and glory for protecting me and my family from “H’s” evilness.

Overcomer by Hope, the confident expectation of something good.