But back then you could count on getting a ride if you hitchhiked, and I did so to hang out with the girls, often. And that’s how it all started.I w...s dressed in a pair of jean shorts, sneakers and a tank top, wandering along a back road, when an older Lincoln came along. I put out my thumb and the car came to a stop just beyond me. I opened the door and behind the wheel was an older Black man, well dressed with grey hair. He was smiling, but his smile quickly faded as I jumped in. He. Wayne, I am the hardest worker in all the warehouse--other than my amigo here, of course--but there is no work right now."Wayne went over and peered out the window. "Nope. None at all. Looks like we could use only about a hundred pallets of empty cans hauled up here from down below. Just in case you forgot. You know, that's what we do around here. We take the corn, and we put it in cans. Of course, we can't do that if we don't have any cans. So I guess we all might as well go back home. Let me. I don’t like people in general, but my own people disappoint me the most. This shouldn’t surprise you. Not today. Many black folks hate their own. There’s a lot of hatred and bitterness between black men and black women in modern-day America. We don’t like each other. It happens. Get over it. Anyhow, having escaped from the madhouse I grew up in, I forged a new life for myself. Saint Meredith College gave me that chance. They offered me a student-athlete scholarship for running cross country.. From my implant, I learned that she was fifteen, and he was fourteen. Her parents didn’t tell her. They wanted to keep the kids in school from teasing her about being in the sixth grade at fifteen. She wasn’t stupid or anything. She had a small tumor in her brain that slowed down her physical and mental development. A doctor required brain scans before they started her on an experimental drug when she was six. They took the tumor out of her brain, but she was effectively still a toddler. She.