For years I was saying to myself — Just so you will act when you meet him. Just so you will stand. So will you look on him. These words you will say to him.
I wanted to show him that what he had done to me could not down me; that his leaving me the way he left me, that his breaking my heart the way he broke it, didn't crush me; that his grand life and my pinched-in life, his having learning and my not having learning — that the difference didn't count so much like it seemed; that on the bottom I was the same like him.
But he came upon me so sudden, all my plannings for years smashed to the wall. The sight of him was like an earthquake shaking me to pieces.
I can't yet see nothing in front of me and can't get my head together to anything, so torn up I am from the shock.
It was at Yetta Solomon's wedding I met him again. She was after me for weeks I should only come.

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