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1.6sSomething to brighten the reader's day.
1.93sI asked you what your name was.
2.94sHoney, you keep that up, it's whatever you want it to be.
1.57sPETER: Of course, back then,
1.97sthe South was a very different place than it is today.
4.44sA backward place where they didn't believe in science and hated others just for being different.
3.07sTime has a way of changing a place and its people.
2.23sUh, excuse me. Hi. Yeah, is--is there, like,
2.54sa human resources guy we could talk to?
3.3sUm, I have a work-related grievance. What?
2.37sYeah, the quarters are too crowded, the hours are long,
3.4sand, uh, you know, I don't like to be "this guy,"
4.57sbut a couple of the overseers have been making racial slurs.
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2.37sPETER: And then, all of a sudden, he saw her.
2.83sLois Laura Bush Lynne Cheney Pewterschmidt,
1.87sthe plantation owner's daughter.
2.77sOf course, ordinarily, black guys aren't attracted to white women,