Theodora

She looked up to the sky and saw a face smiling down at her, the moon the mouth, and the stars the winking eyes. The air was filled with the crisp scent of petroleum and musty grass, and she could remember his words . She could hear his whispers as he prayed his prayer to another in the sheets, another occupied his dreams. He would idolize her words and make a better home in her curves, the crook of her neck and the space between her thighs than the one he made in hers. She felt the sky cracking and the ground beneath her feet no longer seemed sturdy. This is an earth quake, she thought, I'll just lay here and collapse with everything around me, I'll turn to dust.

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Theodora ideji is jaded. And after finding out that the boyfriend she had been going out with for over a year had cheated on her it's not wonder why. So after months of moping and pining after him she decides that enough is enough. She decides to find someone better than him someone who thinks she is worth keeping. This might not be such a challenge if she wasn't a dark skinned black girl living in the 1957. Yea definitely wouldn't be much of a challenge.