The Mended Circle by Lyn LeJeune excerpt

On Ash Wednesday of 1869, the maitresse d’ecole of the once grand plantation calledJewelweed smoothed ragged crosses on the foreheads of ten orphaned slave children. She usedashes mixed with chalk; the black coal dust that the old priest  smeared on the children did notadequately manifest the state of their souls. Besides, the old man was a fool, twisting his lips indistaste as he touched those poor babies.

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