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Big Ramona, in her usual crisp white apron, was pouring the wine. I could just barely hear the sound of running water in the kitchen. ” He, not Rosalind, tended to supervise the kitchen, and he taught the three slaves who worked there his prefer­ences in baking breads and making calfs-foot jelly. The electric shivers wouldn't stop, and I saw only images of the two of us as children, as boys, as men, all of it moving too fast for me to focus, to repudiate or confirm.