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The need to call this thing “good� and this thing “bad,� this thing “white� and this thing “black,� was an impulse that Effia did not understand. In her village, everything was everything. Everything bore the weight of everything else.
“You can learn anything when you have to learn it. You could learn to fly if it meant you would live another day.�
Forgiveness was an act done after the fact, a piece of the bad deed’s future. And if you point the people’s eye to the future, they might not see what is being done to hurt them in the present.
How it goes�
