We bring them home. We raise them up. We fill them up with as much spirit and love and learning as we can possibly find. One day, you realize their home isn't big enough for them anymore. All those qualities you tried so hard to put them are greater than the place they grew up can hold.
The true cost of keeping Mississippi last at everything, and all the stubborn unwillingness to change, and all the blaming of the wrong people is just this: we lose our children. We grew them to be too large to fit in the world we created for them.
My words float out in the air in the hopes that they'll land somewhere that will make a difference. It's all I can do.
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