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Summary: In this episode, author Alice Walker reads her short story, "Roselilly" (1973), the story of a rural African-American woman from Mississippi who is about to escape poverty and disgrace by marrying a man she barely knows, a Muslim from the North. Afterwards she describes the story and how she wrote it about her first marriage to a civil rights attorney.