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“We find ourselves resisting agitators from both ends. But we’ll always honor our loyalty to the king. “On the night before you were to testify, Owen and I tried to make a brave face of it by going to the country club, as if we weren’t living on the edge of a volcano. But doan’ never hit a white child, because his papa gonna make big trouble.