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Maya also known as Marguerite discovers all the splendors and agonies of growing up in a prejudices and disfunciual time in America. From the slow pacesed life of stamps Arkansas to the fast-pace life in St. Louis, Missouri and San Francisco, California Maya’s childhood is full of many obstacles and shows her how prejudice stretches from coast to coast.When Maya was three years old, her successful mother sent her and Bailey from California to Stamps to stay with their grandmother, Mrs. Annie Henderson. Soon thought of as their real mother, Momma raised her grandchildren with the strict Southern principles such as, "wash your feet before you go to bed; always pray to the savior and you shall be forgiven; chores and school come before play; and help those in need and you shall be helped yourself." Those principles formed Maya and Bailey to grew older and wiser in Stamps, each year watching the Negro cotton-pickers come and go while the white folks had no hardships even close t
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Approximate Word count = 689
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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