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Little Black Girl Lost By Keith Lee Johnson
The amazing tragedies in the world. Are all included in this book Little Black Girl Lost by Keith Lee Johnson with characters Jonnie as the little black girl lost, Marguerite is Johnnie's mother, and Earl a man that pays for sex from youth women. In this book Little Black Girl Lost Johnnie a high school student with a mother that is a prostitute Marguerite. Marguerite has a customer named Earl that pays her for intercourse and now wants to pay Johnnie Marguerite’s daughter for intercourse and he’s a married man, married to a rich women but he only wants her for her money. And Johnnie as the church girl that works hard in school and only cares about God and school was forced to loss her virginity with a man that about three times her age which doesn’t matter to Marguerite Johnnie’s mother. …show more content…
And this was being said by Johnnie herself knowing that what her mother is making her do is wrong and that it’s ungodly but Marguerite makes Johnnie self like it’s her responsibility. As a young woman with a curvy body that men want and like to play with. Also, Earl after Johnnie first time keep coming back for more and more almost everyday.
Now, Johnnie is kind of comfortable with her situation now that she has been doing it for a while now. Johnnie still has problems though because she gets talked about at school, people at her church are talking about her because she doesn’t go to church often now. Also, said by Johnnie as she thought about her life after Earl left to go home. Then the next day Johnnie had saw Earl she asked him about a what would he do if she went away that left Earl clueless of what to say at that time but seconds later Earl had said I do not know. Which lead to Johnnie asking lots of questions about her and

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