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"A story about a black woman who grows up in a southern town and moves to a city, dates and ends up marrying a man who abuses her one time. She boiled a pot of hot water all day and waited for her husband to get home. Put a blanket over him so it wouldn't burn him too bad and poured the hot water over him. He vowed not to hit her again after that "