A New LifeChapter 14
November 29, 1849 I woke up next to Claire and found her eyes open looking at me. I reached out my hand and stroked her hair as we lay there, "How are you feeling? I asked. "I hurt but not as much as yesterday. It will get better." "Did anyone do anything else?", I asked, afraid that she had been raped during her ordeal. "No, you got there before anything else happened. They might have, but the whipping I got from Thompson, saved me from that. The woman who bought me from him told...