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OVO OM ebay ENSUE A Sister Remembers Growing Up with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr by Christine King Pacis lusrated by Chis Soentpiet Drama ea ea aut Sane Am > See gee “The house where we Were born belonged to Moher Dears patents our grandparents, the Reverend and Mrs. D.Wilisms We lived there wih them andl our Aunt ka, ur grandmother's se, And not long after my brother Martin—who we ealed ML becatse hie an ay the same name—our baby brother was born. His ram was red Daniel but we called him A.D, afer ou grander eae ae pee eee ree ee eas igor rnp Nae Pecan eae Seearieeragaerire et ees ise tae rere) Eee rota al a | And ofcourse, my brothers and I had eachother We tree ck together ie the pages ina brandnew book. And beng normal young children, we were almost alwys up to something hue mostly we were wood abedlen chiken, and M. Ld Ourhest prank involved fr piece tha belonged to ou earn to play few songs on the piano. He even Went off sing srandmother It looked almost live, with sty fet and Uile ‘with oar mother time or two. Given hi ove fr singing and ‘head and leaming sas ees. So, every onee na white in the ‘musi, m sure e could have become as god a musician as our ‘waning light of evening, we'd te that ur pce oa stick, and, other ha his ie not called him down efferent path ‘nding bein the hedge in ont of our house we would dangle ‘Bu tha just wha his ie i icin font of unsuspecting passersby: Boy You could hear the sercas of ight all across the neighboehod!? “Then there was the time Mother Dear decide thither hire shoul lea to pla pst did't ind woo mmc, ‘but M. Land A.D. preferred being outside to being stuck inside ‘wih our piano teacher, Me Mana, who would rap your knuckles ‘with a ruler just for plying the wrong notes Wel one morning DM. LandD. decided 10 loosen the legs on the pane bench 50 ‘we wok’ have to practice, We da tll Me Mann and when hie st... CRASH! down he weat.

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