You could see a movie at the Cineplex about the same time it came out on DVD, but you had to hitch a ride over to Summerville, by the community college. The library still had a card catalog, the high school still hadĬhalkboards, and our community pool was Lake Moultrie, warm brown water and all. All we had was a Dar-ee Keen, since the Gentrys were too cheap to buy all new letters when they bought the Dairy King. We were too far from Charleston to have a Starbucks or a McDonald’s. Gatlin wasn’t like the small towns you saw in the movies, unless it was a movie from about fifty years ago. Just another reason I couldn’t wait to get out of here. Everyone under the age of sixty called it the War Between the States, while everyone over sixty called it the War of Northern Aggression, as if somehow the North had baited the South into war over a bad bale of cotton. Only folks down here didn’t call it the Civil War. Since my great-great-great-great-granddad, Ellis Wate, fought and died on the other side of the Santee River during the Civil War. My father was a writer, and we lived in Gatlin, South Carolina, because the Wates always had, Everyone else finds a way out.” There was no question which one he was, but I’d never had the courage to ask why. “The ones who are bound to stay or too dumb to go.

“The stupid and the stuck,” my father had affectionately classified our neighbors. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.īEFORE The Middle of Nowhere There were only two kinds of people in our town. Hate cannot drive out hate only love can do that. Kami Garcia & Margaret Stohl Beautiful Creaturesĭarkness cannot drive out darkness only light can do that.

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