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Mike Chambers
Connie is a young woman who features in Mike’s story of how he got badly injured. Mike’s friends, who are white, were harassing Connie, who is black, in a drugstore. Mike intervened and offered to drive Connie home. However, when he arrives at her house, she tells a group of black men waiting outside the car to kill Mike, resulting in his broken arms, bandaged head, and the stitches in his lip. Still, Mike says that he doesn’t hate Connie, knowing that she was likely getting revenge for previous incidents of white people harassing her.
Connie Quotes in That Was Then, This Is Now
The That Was Then, This Is Now quotes below are all either spoken by Connie or refer to Connie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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As we got into the elevator Mark said, “I’m inclined to agree with his old man. That is one stupid guy.”
“You mean it?” I said. I had been thinking about Mike’s story, and I could see his point about not hating the people who beat him up.
“Yeah, I mean it. Man, if anybody ever hurt me like that I’d hate them for the rest of my life.”
I didn’t think much about that statement then. But later I would—I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I’m going crazy.
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Connie Quotes in That Was Then, This Is Now
The That Was Then, This Is Now quotes below are all either spoken by Connie or refer to Connie. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 2
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As we got into the elevator Mark said, “I’m inclined to agree with his old man. That is one stupid guy.”
“You mean it?” I said. I had been thinking about Mike’s story, and I could see his point about not hating the people who beat him up.
“Yeah, I mean it. Man, if anybody ever hurt me like that I’d hate them for the rest of my life.”
I didn’t think much about that statement then. But later I would—I still do. I think about it and think about it until I think I’m going crazy.
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