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>> you included three quotes in your epigraph. one is from deuteronomy, and the old testament. one is from the poet, gloria verandas, and one is from the atlanta hip-hop roop, outcast. the last one reads, we on our backs, staring at the stars above, talking about what we gonna be when we grow up. i said, what you want to be? she said, alive. what's the significance of that? >> i love southern wrap. i love outkast, i'm a huge outkast fan. i feel like southern rap and music was so necessary and instrumental to my life when i was growing up, and informed so much of my ideas about myself and the world that i was moving through, and what was possible and gave me keys to understand that world. i wanted to reference southern wrap in you know, the beginning of the book, in one of epigraph's. and i was listening to outkast,

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