Dear Nettie,
The world is dark
,oh so dark, Nettie what will I do to survive this painful life.
Netter, how will I survive?
Pa beats me and momma thinks I the devil.
Nettie how will I survive?
Mr._ come to take you away, please don't let him take you Nettie, I can't bare to lose you
Pa says that he gonna give me to Mr._, cause he don't think Nettie old enough.
Pa give me way because I'm the oldest and I should be married first.
But I don't want to leave Nettie, I can lose you.
Pa says Mr._ should take me stead of Nettie, she to young he say, She need more schoolin'.
Pa says even though I spoiled, ugly, and stupid, that I'm good with the children. Mr._ don't know what to say buy he come back. He take me away from you Nettie, I don't wanna leave, I loves you.
Mr._ come and get me. He take me home to his terrible children, they dirty and mean
Oh, Nettie how I wish I was back with you.
Nettie, oh Nettie. I can't believe your leaving me. I miss you Nettie where are you gonna go?
Why do I gotta stay here?
I want to go with you Nettie. I don't wanna stay here.
Shug come here, she sick, real sick. I sit there with her admiring her, taking care of her. She blunt to Mr._. She don't care what he say. She the boss.
Harpo, Mr._ son, have a girl. Real strong proud women. Her name Sofia.
He don't like that she don't mind him, she like a man. She do what she want.
Sofia get in trouble, big trouble. She be walking down the street and the mayor and his wife and kids were walking around and stopped Sofia on the street. She wanted Sofia to be her maid.
Sofia to proud a woman for that, so she threw a punch.
Well Nettie, they punched back, oh Nettie you should see the way she looks, its terrible.
Where you Nettie? I miss you Nettie.
Albert's been hiding your letters Nettie. All this time.
All I feel right now is hate, I wanna kill him but Shug say I ain't allowed to, she say its not right. So Me and Shug saying up and reading your letters, Oh Nettie I miss you so.
I been making pants, for anyone that wants them. Its so nice. I making you a pair Nettie. They light and airy for those hot days your having.
I go one of your letters, said that Pa ain't our Pa.
Me and Shug went over there. He got a wife no older than 15. He confirm the story you told me.
Oh Nettie what we gonna do. I guess I should be happy he ain't our real Pa but this doesn't settle the vile in my stomach.
Shug say I'm going to Tennessee with her and Grady.
I don't know what to say. Oh Nettie things are looking up,
Squeak, Harpos new wife coming wit us, she gonna sing. It seem Grady like her.
I got my own room at Shug's house. I sit and make pants all the time, it make me happy Nettie I wish to see you soon.
It nice to see Sofia and Harpo again. But her momma died. She going to the funeral soon.
Albert a lot better a man, got some sense to him no, me and him sit and talk.
The man we know as Pa is dead, its left in the will that I get the house, I don't want none to do with it, but Shug say it be good for me, so I take it.
Oh Nettie my heart breaking in so many pieces, Shug love a younger man, she leaving me, shes say she be back, but oh Nettie, I cant take it.
The house fixed up now. I sit and sew and make small talk with Albert, He sews now too. Us sit and talk about Shug and how much we love her.
Nettie, Shug back, I feel whole again, I should be mad, but I ain't, it just nice to have her beside me again.
Nettie Oh, Sweet Nettie, look how we have grown. The kids Nettie, so big, so beautiful, I love you Nettie, Its nice to have you back home...