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Alphonse Decuir
Leon Vignes was Stella and Desiree’s father. He died when the girls were very young. A group of angry, racist men stormed into his house, dragged him outside, and tried to murder him. They didn’t end up succeeding, but they returned when he was in the hospital and shot him in the head.
Leon Vignes Quotes in The Vanishing Half
The The Vanishing Half quotes below are all either spoken by Leon Vignes or refer to Leon Vignes. 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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But even here, where nobody married dark, you were still colored and that meant that white men could kill you for refusing to die. The Vignes twins were reminders of this, tiny girls in funeral dresses who grew up without a daddy because white men decided that it would be so.
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Leon Vignes Quotes in The Vanishing Half
The The Vanishing Half quotes below are all either spoken by Leon Vignes or refer to Leon Vignes. 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:
).
Chapter 2
Quotes
But even here, where nobody married dark, you were still colored and that meant that white men could kill you for refusing to die. The Vignes twins were reminders of this, tiny girls in funeral dresses who grew up without a daddy because white men decided that it would be so.
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