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You, however,  may quote whatever annotations I have stated that you find make a very good lesson and point I will allow that. I quote people all the time. And I will be listing several quotes from the story in these chapters to come up later because they are really good to quote, my friends.

12: 35th diary entry annotated.
Monday night
Aunt Tee sent me down to the Quarters to take a ointment to Aggie. (14 words) Spicy went long. (3 words) Wook tries to be nice. (5 words, excellent that someone still knows how to be nice after all the hard labor in the harsh sunshine.) But for some reason, Missy done took a dislikin' to Spicy. (11 words, mean girls normally do hate new kids on the block a good most of the time, but even today it is quite stereotyped.) That Missy is really changin'. (5 words, true, she's become way too selfish now.)
I showed her Little Bit, and she laughed at me 'bout still playin' with dolls. (15 words, how rude; it is good to know how to play with dolls then you can teach your kids all about the wonders of imagination.) Later, Spicy told me not to worry 'bout what Missy say. (11 words, good you reassured our main character this is what real friends do they tell you truth exactly as it is.) "People teases you sometimes 'cause they know it'll make you mad." (11 words, people who tease you sometimes only seek to get under your skin to make you mad. He'll joke about something I find more serious and not funny. And it's annoying. Bottom line my Dad is bad at telling jokes. He never says in them in the right way.) I asked her why she let Hince's teasin' make her so mad then? (13 words, good question to ask back too.)
"I hate my name," she say. "Spicy! (6 words in one sentence followed by one word sentence in ""s.) Whoever heared of such a silly name?" (7 words in sentence, I can see where is coming from, can you, Skylights?) "My mama was all set to call me Rose. (9 words.) But our ol' mistress say no, and named me Spicy. (10 words, of all the rules that should never exist in slavery is Mothers not being allowed to choose the names they want for their children. That's such a stupid rule, and I bet you all agree with me too.) Mama had to do it — couldn't say nothin' 'bout it." (10 words) The more I learn 'bout Spicy the more I like her, but the more I hurt deep down for her, too. (21 words, that is usually the way it is you, you learn more about people and decide if you like them or not, but your sorrow and hurt and concern will also grow for the suffering ones you really truly care about from the deepest part of your hearts, Skylights.)

13: 36th diary entry annotated.
Day later
Hince hardly ever comes to the kitchen since he and Spicy had that bad fallin' out. (16 words, not surprised, still probably trying to get over be frightened. Some boys are real scaredy cats.)
So, I been goin' to the stables whenever I get a chance. (12 words, nice to make an effort to give comfort to your adoptive brother friend when he has done it first for you for years by coming to your part of the plantation to visit you. I'm glad you went to comfort him, Clotee.)
"Is Spicy mean to you?" (5 words, glad he asked, so we could easily clear somethings up. Many boys are afraid to ask and get the truth about a real deal girl like Spicy herself.) Hince asked me. (3 words) "Not at all." (3 words)
I told him Spicy is just totin' a lot of hurt from the way she been treated. (17 words, absolutely true and easy to understand.) He nodded a understandin'. (4 words sentence, and what a gracious boy, for now, Skylights)I really do like her a lot. (7 words, the bond has gone very deep.) I think she might be my friend. (7 words, she already is honestly. The only way to make a friend is to be a friend.) I wrote F-R-I-E-N-D-S. (3 words.)
This time I seen Hince, Wook, and now Spicy. (9 words, some pictures grow and shrink inside their frames in our minds. This is one place where you can find it come very quite alive.) Missy aine even now in the picture. (7 words, not surprised since Clotee never favored this person anyways, Skylights)

14: 37th diary entry annotated.
Wednesday
Hince and Mas' Henley been goin' to horse races most every week. (12 words.)
They rode off last night, on the way to Southampton. (10 words.) Hince is a mighty fine jockey — wins a heap of money for Mas' Henley. (14 words, Hince is another currently fortunate slave one of three who got to travel around on the actual jobs of his.)

Wednesday evenin'
I can smell the word K-I-T-C-H-E-N and see it, too. (10 words) It always smells good — herbs hangin' from the eaves, dryin'. (10 words, the kitchen will always feel good when you're surrounded in it by good people.) Hickory chips slow-burnin' on the back fire. (7 words) A pot bubblin' or boilin'. (5 words, but also it will be quite noisy too.) Aunt Tee loves her big, four-hip fireplace where four grown women can stand side by side and cook together. (19 words) She's truly the mistress of Belmont's Kitchen. (7 words, I would believe it.)
Miz Lilly was in the kitchen today chatterin' on 'bout what she wanted fixed for a special dinner. (18 words)
Aunt Tee just say, "Yes, Miz Lilly," but in the end, Aunt Tee cooked what she always fixes on Wednesday. (20 words) I had to tell Spicy how Aunt Tee and Mas' Henley get along. (13 words) Mas' Henley be real particular 'bout what goes in his mouth. (11 words) He don't trust nobody but Aunt Tee to fix his food.  (11 words) I once heared him say, he wouldn't eat behind a cook he had to beat — scared of bein' poisoned, I s'pose. (21 words, it pays to be overly cautious sometimes, but every once in a while it doesn't pay at all to be overly cautious.)
Aunt Tee know just who she cooks for, and it aine Miz Lilly. (13 words) "Mas' spects to have fried chicken and whipped potatoes on Wednesdays and that's what I fixed." (16 words) And that's what we served to the guests tonight. (9 words.)

15: 38th diary entry annotated.
Next day
Tellin' Spicy the way things work here at Belmont is fun. (11 words, explaining how things did work and vary from plantation to plantation would be fun. There would be so many options.)
Last night I 'splained to her why Mas' Henley favors Aunt Tee, but all the time 'gainst Uncle Heb. (18 words)
The best way for her to get an understandin' was to start at the beginnin' — back when Mas' Henley first come to Belmont. (23 words)
Uncle Heb was here at Belmont when Mas' Henley married Miz Lilly who was a widow-woman with one child. (20 words)
Uncle Heb ran the place, keepin' the orchards goin' and all. (11 words, another fortunate job a slave had on this Belmont plantation.) Word tells, Uncle Heb was once a tall, handsome man. (10 words) Even now, all crippled from hard work and age, he still look good. (13 words, wow!) First thing when he got here, Mas' Henley wanted to sell Uncle Heb. (13 words) Miz Lilly wouldn't have it. (5 words)
Uncle Heb had been born here at Belmont. (8 words) Him and Miz Lilly's daddy, David Monroe, was boys together. (10 words, no wonder she is so attached afterwards.)
Miz Lilly likes to brag that presidents and governors have ate here at Belmont. (14 words, brag means some of it is an obvious lie, Skylights.) Uncle Heb loves to brag, too. (6 words.) "Been all over this 'Merican land," he say, callin' up memories of when he traveled round with David Monroe. (19 words) He say he been everywhere. (5 words) "Take the time me and the Mas'er went to Richmond... Norfolk ... Jamestown... even been to Mount Vernon. (17 words, I very highly doubt the last part.) Been everywhere, all over this big 'Merican country." (8 words) I would give anythin' to see just one of them places. (11 words) Hince is the onlyest one of us who done traveled further than Uncle Heb. (14 words, horse racing always takes you further out from home.) I remember once, William told me there were ghosts in the woods and a big snake lived there. (18 words, boys will say anything to scare you just for the funny laughs and smirks they get out of it.) It ate up all slaves who dared to leave Belmont. (10 words) It was Uncle Heb who taught me better. (8 words)
Everybody young and old loves the old man — everybody 'cept'n Mas' Henley — and that's 'cause he's part of Miz Lilly's family. (21 words)
"Mas' Henley aine nothin' but white trash who married into a fine Virginia family," say Uncle Heb. (17 words make up two sentences. Still a little too harsh to call him "trash".) He's never had no use for his new master. (9 words)

16: 39th diary entry annotated.

Saturday
There was a gatherin' down in the barn tonight, 'cause Wook jumped the broom with Lee — a man from the Teasdale Plantation - near 'bout twice Wook's age. (27 words)
Mas' Henley came down to the party and said a few words 'bout wantin' them to have lots and lots of babies. (22 words) I cain't believe Wook is married. (6 words) She's only a few years older than me — and I aine near 'bout ready to be married. (17 words) And by the look on Wook's face she aine ready neither. (11 words)
I didn't even know she was lookin' at boys. (9 words, she actually wasn't.) Now, she's married — and I didn't even know it. (9 words, you didn't know it Clotee because she had no time to tell you yet, she would've.) Why didn't she tell me? (5 words, no time to tell you yet she had.) All of us from the kitchen were there. (8 words) Spicy came, even though she didn't want to. (8 words) Uncle Heb cut roses for each one of us to put in our hair. (14 words)
I took the red one, and Spicy liked the yellow one. (11 glad somebody else finds yellow roses pretty decent and not a superstitious sign of death, and envy. I'm looking at you China the country as whole in itself, Skylights.)
She looks happier than when she came here, but her eyes still hold a lot of sorry. (17 words)
Hince got back. (3 words) He was there, dancin' with all the girls. (8 words) The only man that aine married here at Belmont is Hince. (11 words) Everybody's wonderin' who will Hince jump the broom with? (9 words)
The way Missy been lookin' at him, I think she'd say yes to him today. (15 words)
But Hince can do better than Missy. (7 words) I sure hope so. (4 words)
Hince does know how to have a good time. (9 words) Ever since I can remember he's danced with me first. (10 words) Tonight, he passed right by and asked Spicy to dance first. (11 words) I was surprised and a bit put-out. (7 words) I'spose it was his way of makin' up to her. (10 words) I didn't think Spicy would dance with him — but I was wrong. (12 words)
When she stood up, everybody started gigglin'. (7 words, leap to conclusions and you leap into confusion. Walking and dancing are two different things. Some people are clumsy at a regular walk and some are clumsy at dance. Spicy is not one of the latter people.)
Everybody knows how clumbsy Spicy can be. (7 words) But she fooled us all, kickin' up her heels and pattin' the juba better than anybody 'round here had seen before. (21 words)
I saw a side of Spicy I didn't know was there. (10 words) She was happy, smilin' big, light-footed, free as a bird. (10 words, even what you may not expect or be happy about can change your point of view from sorrowful and mad to glad and gleeful fast especially if it's joy for a friend's entertainment.) Spicy wasn't clumbsy at all when she was dancin'. (9 words) Lookin' at Hince and her turnin' together, made me forget that I was mad at Hince for not dancin' with me first. (22 words, good girl.) It was all right. (4 words) After that dance, everybody was askin' Spicy to cut a pigeon wing, or shoo fly. (15 words)  Nobody asked me to dance. (5 words) Even if they did, Aunt Tee wouldn't let me, 'cause she say I'm not courtin' age yet. (17 words, good to have a cautious foster Aunt looking out for your well-being.) Just Hince, 'cause he's like a brother. (7 words) It was such a good party — but I don't think Wook enjoyed one minute of it. (16 words, sometimes the ones for whom a party is thrown will never be happy at them.) She just sat with her arms folded, lookin' sad. (9 words) If she didn't want to get married, why did she? (10 words, one sentence of 4 words. She didn't have choice.)

If anyone is worried that he might not be acting honorably toward the virgin he is engaged to, and if his passions are two strong and he feels he ought to marry, he should do as he wants. He is not sinning. They should get married. But the man who has settled the matter in his own mind, who is under no compulsion but has control over his will, and who has made up his mind to not marry the virgin—this man also does the right thing. So then he who married the virgin does right, but he who does not marry the virgin does better. 1st Corinthians 7: 36-38

But then there is this in the same chapter,

39-40 A woman is bound to her husband as long as he lives. But if her husband dies, she is free to marry anyone she wishes, but he must belong to the Lord. (Paul is being overly one sided in the middle of that last sentence. There are plenty of real truthful romances where the wife is responsible for their husbands' conversions of belief systems for again the Glory of God to show through his cherished Earthly Mothers and their treasured daughters. It is always better though to have a Godly husband at your side. There is a better rule in  concerning Marriage.)  Verse 40 is entirely Paul's own bias opinion. In my judgement, she is happier if she stay as she is— and I think I too have the Spirit of God. (While every disciple was gifted the Holy Spirit that doesn't mean all the words out of their mouth were always 100% correct. There are better rules concern marriage in Deuteronomy as weird ad that may sound.)
I don't think was how the passage was tended to be ordered. I think newer generations may have switched the order around after all everybody always wants the good news first which is why this verse is made clear. 7:14-15  which actually is clarified to be God's voice "For the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife, and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. Otherwise your children would be unclean, as it is, they are holy. But if the unbeliever leaves let it be so. The brother or sister is not bound in such circumstances; God has called us to live peace. "(My oldest brother has a second marriage with a very Godly woman, his first wife left him and he followed this verse and let her be, and God moved him towards someone else far better. And now he has two very helpful daughters taught well by both parents. But they both tend to over-worry about the rest of us now, Skylights.)
17: 40th diary entry annotated.
Sunday
Hince came to worship service for the first time this mornin'. (10 words) Only 'cause Aunt Tee made him. (6 words) He sat between Spicy and me and made faces, tryin' to make us laugh. (14 words, I understand he's bored just sitting around but one should never distract anyone from a real lesson you might need to hear during a church service, Skylightd.) Aunt Tee pinched me on the arm to make me behave. (11 words, getting disciplined is very hard sometimes.) All the time Missy rolled her eyes at us. (9 words) Then afterwards, we all had to hurry back to get supper on the table. (14 words)
But Missy jumped in front of Spicy. (7 words)
"Jus' 'cause you up in the Big House with the white folks, don't mean you gon' get to marry Hince. (20 words, you only wish that were true, Missy. I don't think Hince would take kindly to a grumpy woman period.) He gon' jump the broom with me, so don't you be lookin' at him, you hear?" (16 words) And she strutted away. (4 words, worse than Prince Amber & Hildegarde from Sofia The First Disney Junior show. You think you know bullies and know real meanness there is and will always be someone worse.) Hince aine thinkin' bout jumpin' the broom with nobody. (9 words) Missy just wanted to say somethin' mean to Spicy. (9 words) But I cain't help but think — Spicy and Hince? (9 words) Now that's a match I wouldn't have put together. (9 words)
But the more I think 'bout it, and remember them dancin' together — the better I like the idea. (18 words) Spicy and Hince. (3 words, God pulled them together, he made Hince show he was sorry about how he reacted to her complaint in the kindest way he ever could.)

18: 41st diary entry annotated.
Monday
I been learnin' a lot durin' study time. (8 words) I know the seasons, the days of the week, the months and the order they come in. (17 words) Mostly, we tell time by the sun, the moon, and what's happenin' on that day. (15 words) The rains have set in and it's hard to tell one day from the next — just grayness. (17 words) No sun. (2 words, so much dreariness and gloom when the sun won't shine awhile.)
Everythin' I touch feels dampish. (5 words. This is just what rains do pile wet on everything they touch.)

19: 42nd diary entry annotated.
Tuesday
Wook waved at me from the fields. (7 words)
I waved back. (3 words) Aunt Tee say I cain't keep company with Wook any more, 'cause she's a married woman. (16 words, this is an old rule that is never used today and should never be used. Young ladies need to learn from new Moms just as Moms need to learn from their daughters and their sons.) "Girls and women ought not to mingle." (7 words)
When I write Wook's name, I sees her bein' a growed-up woman with a husband. (15 words)
A part of me wants to be round and full like Wook, or maybe a little bit wild and pretty-like Missy, or even tall and strong-lookin' like Spicy. (28 words. Never be ashamed of how you look, it's God's gift to you that you look so different on the outside as well as from within you too.) But I aine none of those things. (7 words) But if I could be — I'd like to be just a little bit pretty. (14 words) I've looked at myself in Miz Lilly's mirror before. (9 words) I aine what you call homely, but I'd like for my teeth not to be so big. (17 words) My head sits square on my shoulders, but I'd like to be taller — stronger. (14 words) I guess I'm all right, but I don't feel all right. (11 words)

20: 43rd diary entry annotated.
Wednesday
It was durin' the dark of night when Rufus came knockin' at the kitchen door, hollerin' and all in a sweat. (21 words. Talk about a real devoted husband) Aggie was 'bout to give birth. (5 words) I begged Aunt Tee to let me go with her durin' the birthin', but she aine never let me go and she didn't this time neither. (26 words, sometimes grown ups are always right and this case she was. Midwives are not suppose to be queasy and we know Clotee is after she saw Spicy's back this is why Aunt Tee say