Author's Note: "'Looking his last' upon the scene of his former joys… going to his doom with a grim smile on his lips." ― Mark Twain, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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You don't know about me without you've read at least one of the books in the Logan family series such as "Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry," "Let the Circle Be Unbroken," "The Road to Memphis," or "Mississippi Bridge," but that ain't no matter. Those books was made by Miz Mildred D. Taylor, and she told the truth, mainly. Not that I got any right to criticize anyone else on that score.

But anyway, seems like Miz Taylor figures ain't she gonna write about me no more, and while I guess I can understand that, it warn't hardly the end of the story, 'least not as far as I was concerned.

See, I think what happened was maybe for the best… I mean, what happened to me, not what happened to—

I ain't tellin' this right.

If'n you ain't read "The Road to Memphis," maybe you better git on over to amazon and get you a copy, 'cause I can't be retellin' that whole story here. Suffice it to say, I couldn't'a done anything other than what I did… and in a way I'm glad, even if it did mean Pa wouldn't look at me no more, and I gotta go fight in this war now and everything, 'cause if I hadn't needed so badly to keep Harris Mitchum from takin' the blame for somethin' that weren't noways his fault on top'a what we done to him before, maybe nothing would ever have changed.

I was sorry Pa ain't let me said goodbye to Ma. But Pa is just Pa, and there ain't no changin' him, no matter what happens or who's hurt.

But at least Stacey and them was willin' to speak to me 'fore I left, so in a way… I did get a 'family' send off after all when I left for the war, even if that family wasn't my own.