has more meaning than one; it did not mean the same thing to Cheever as it does to me; have no knowledge of the period; my family were farmers, so the feeling is to come home before dark. my mother told me one night in front of my grandmother’s house; no I could not go out at dark; wanted to hang out with my friends; the other boys on the street, but could not; became angry and resentful, pulling a literary temper tantrum, ran from room to room; writer to writer; did not matter the color; voice is voice; safety is seeking the truth; safety is being honest about all of it, eventually it reveals; it wields powers against me, being grounded without background, especially from this aesthetic distance. I waited so long to realize this importance; now must play catch up with the other boys on the corner, the neighbors laughed at me and said, roll call, because their parents did not have curfew, mine called me in to remember, to simmer in my preparation to come home before dark.
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