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[runwithmerosalee-blog]

Ernestine: Don't know why you'd want to trap spirits after they die. Seems to me they finally free.

Table-Tapper: You let 'em fester, them evil spirits will eat away at everything good and whole in this life. They follow you into the next. Ain't no freedom in that.

[runwithmerosalee-blog]

Let me tell y'all a cautionary tale about a slave who tried to run. Thought he was smart. But the first time, he didn't break a sweat when they dragged him back, burned that R into his flesh. But some folks don't never learn. That night the boy ran again. Two days later, his ass dragged back. So they held him down, burned another R, right next to the other. That boy couldn't stand his own reflection after that. A man who never sees his own reflection. Hell, he starts to forget he's a man at all. That boy made a promise if he ever did it again, he wouldn't hesitate... not a moment. He'd learned it so good, he didn't hesitate when he burned half his face off to get rid of them R's.