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House Arrest: A Search For American Character In and Around the White House, Past and Present
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Paulette Jenkins is an African-American inmate
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Paulette: I began to learn how to cover it up
because I didn鈥檛 want nobody to know that this was happening
In
my home.
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I was so petrified
and so numb
all I could look
was in the rearview mirror.
And he just laid her right on the shoulder of the highway.
My own chile.
I let that happen to.
For full extended monologue, please refer to clips or the script edition cited here: Anna Deavere Smith, House Arrest, Anchor Books, 2004, pp. 137-140.
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