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salma, 5
I wist sum magic w’u’d ellow, /
(By charm or craf’—doan mattah how) /
You stay jes lak you is right now, /
Mah ’ittle Touzle Head.
Ray G. Dandridge, ’Ittle Touzle Head
Rashid, also around 75, was luckier. With help from his father, he drummed up the money to marry Salima from the next village, and in this way steered his family into the ways and blood of the Shawawi. The children bear the unmistakable marks of the mountain tribe: a heart stopping raw, raging beauty, as delicate as it is cruel. Stare at it in their long, fine faces, delicate complexion and, above all, in the haunting green eyes of the mountain people.
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