Quotes from Parris Afton Bonds

Hot.  Tropical, damp climates always made the skin sticky and hot.  Feverishly so.  Sometimes, I thought my very flesh would melt and hang from my bones like Spanish moss.  In Paris I whirled in lightness and freedom . . . flinging the past away until I felt cool and alive again.  But . . . the oppression came back, didn't it?  I shivered, it still held me down, sucked my breath away.

Inside, she vibrated with a passion to discover life's secrets, a passion to right wrongs, a passion to unfold the petals of the heart. But even I didn't know that then. Rebellious, she accepted his offer to accompany him to the Moulin Rouge. 

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