His Own Where (10 page)

Arms around and head and cheek the skin and temperature of touch. Buddy hold his Angela but closer now and near enough to hear her breathing regular. Here is how they feel a happiness. Angela awaken looking to his open eyes.

“I hope I’m pregnant, Buddy.”

“Hey, Angela. We make that sure enough. And soon.”

And so begins a new day of the new life in the cemetery.

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Text copyright © 1971 by June Jordan

Introduction © 2010 by Sapphire

 

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Jordan, June, 1936-2002.

His own where / by June Jordan.—1st Feminist Press ed.

p. cm.

Introduction by Sapphire.

Summary: With their lives spinning out of control, sixteen-year-old Buddy Rivers and his girl friend Angela create their own way of staying alive in Brooklyn in the mid-1960s.

eISBN : 978-1-558-61688-2

[1. African-Americans—Fiction. 2. Love—Fiction. 3. Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)—History—20th century—Fiction.] I. Title.

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