Her voice turned sour and her face twisted up to match. “The world didn’t change. There is still murder, still rape and fighting. We fucked it up,” she said. “We had this chance, this clean slate, and we just carried on the same as we always have.”

I knew what she was talking ’bout, knew why she was sore over it. I seen all them evils a’ this world firsthand and they done damage to me I don’t even know about yet.