His Only Hope
The young boy said something to me that I didn't understand, but the white man answered his question.
The only word I understood was a name, Josephine. The boy with the kind green eyes smiled at me, calling me by that name, Josephine. He then led me into the yard, and out to a creek that flowed behind it. He continued to call me Josephine, and though I knew that wasn't my real name, I understood that now it was. He continued to speak to me, but I didn't understand what he was saying, so he showed me that he wanted me to clean myself in the river. I was nervous about so with him standing there, as I had only ever bathed with the other women from my village, but he turned around and started wa
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