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A Selma Memory

A Selma Memory

Crossing the Edmund Pettus Bridge

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May 28, 2024
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Young Samwise on the Edmund Pettus Bridge, 2017.

I found this memory in an old journal. I wrote it seven years ago during our first road trip, back when it was just Samwise and me. I may have shared a version on the Following Atticus Facebook page when it transpired. But this is the first time the story has been shared on Substack.

Here’s what I wrote on May 27, 2017, in Mobile, Alabama.

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