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Miracle
at Sacred Heart Elementary School,
I asked my teacher: Sister Mary
Helen, if Jesus turned water to wine, why didn't he turn wine
to water? Sister Mary Helen was the
English teacher, and encouraged original thoughts. I wrote about
my mother smoking a reefer near
the scrambled eggs on the kitchen stove, and
Sister Mary Helen called the story ghetto.
I then realized that my skin
looked darker against
my white blouse, and the whiteness of the
room. I
returned to the apartment crying, and smelled more of my family's
bitterness. I
stayed in my uniform. I now wish
that my black words would change into a
white habit.
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