One parent superpower was that of my mother, putting fear in us with her look. If she said to not do something, and we attempted to do it, she only had to look at us to get us to conform. Mama had this thing about secular music and dancing, so that was not something that was going to occur in her home. So, we could buy gospel music to play on the record player. That was okay. However, not secular music.
Her father, on the other hand, my grandfather, he would walk a couple of miles up to our home, and he would bring music by Clarence Carter, and he would play it, and Mama wouldn’t say anything to him about playing it, but she would look at us, and that contributed to me not being a dancer.
I can’t dance at all. I always said that if I could have changed that one superpower with the look she gave us with her father playing secular music in the home, and us not standing there and not moving to the rhythm, I think that would have helped me a lot in being able to dance. So that’s one of the things I would have changed with her superpower of that look when she heard secular music and did not allow us to dance in the house.
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