Most simply avoided looking directly at her.
By the time she reached adulthood, she stood taller than almost every man who crossed her path. Her strength seemed almost impossible. Stories spread from plantation to plantation about the enormous woman who could carry loads that required several workers and labor from sunrise to darkness without complaint.
Yet what unsettled people most wasn’t her size.
It was her silence.
No one could remember hearing her speak.
Not once.
Not for years.
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