*Miss Lula Bell is one of my most favorite people in the world. I love to hear her a raise one of those old church songs during August revival. Her deceased husband Jim Givens was a deacon at Jerusalem Baptist Church. Mr. Jim and Miss Lula Bell came to the house often when I was a child to sit and talk with Mama and Daddy. Her pet name for me was "Ru-baby." At ninety she still drives her old car to church. Like Mama, she likes pretty clothes to wear to church. Both like dazzling hats. Their backs straighten when they are in their Sunday clothes, like they walking through the pearly gates.

**Peter left Kay and her three children and she and the kids moved next door with Cleveland, called "Chicken," Edith’s youngest son, who lives alone in his mother’s house. Key eventually ended up in California with her three sons I suppose they are grown by now. But I have not seen Blue Eyes since he was a little boy. I suspect all three boys will have a difficulty time coming to grips with their identity, having a white mother and a black father, alienated from their white grandparents and to an extent from their Negro grandparents. 

This continuing rift between peoples is one of those peculiar remnants of America’s slavocracy and institutionalized racism. Generations have to pay for the immorality of our country's past. I believe in free will and grace. It is thus possible that all three boys will come to grips with our troubled and perplexing past and make the best use of it to build a world on their own terms that will be more just and forgiving.