Day Graham Celia’s older sister, is a pretty, pecan-brown, double-wide-bottomed, bubbly-shake of a woman. At the groundbreaking of the first black church since the beginning of time, she knows everything about every thing. From a long line of Geechies who scratched and machetted their way out of the Gullah Sea Islands, she has acquired a bit of education and a fearsome desire for “middle-classness”. Proud of the lineage, yet furiously gazing beyond the horizon for a life, free of ghosts and shackles. She speaks in a thick Geechie accent informed by the rhythms of the AME Church
Day Graham Celia’s older sister, is a pretty, pecan-brown, double-wide-bottomed, bubbly-shake of a woman. At the groundbreaking of the first black church since the beginning of time, she knows everything about every thing. From a long line of Geechies who scratched and machetted their way out of the Gullah Sea Islands, she has acquired a bit of education and a fearsome desire for “middle-classness”. Proud of the lineage, yet furiously gazing beyond the horizon for a life, free of ghosts and shackles. She speaks in a thick Geechie accent informed by the rhythms of the AME Church
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