Day 15: Turning the Page July 17, 1861

Its been a week and the boys havent showed up, I guess Poppa was wrong, I got my hopes up for nothin. Thats probably why I shouldnt have listened in, I knew something was gonna happen but I was hopin for the best. Seein my brothers right now would mean the world to me and now its not gonna come true! Somethin needs to change! Im tired of this! This mess and everything being taken from us, our slaves, now be able to rome my own home land no more! its sad to what has been brought to us. Momma said things are just gonna get worse now. There is one upside, we are gettin a new neighbor! They moved in yesterday and im really eager to go meet them! Maybe they have a kid my age I can play with. AnnaMae lives about 3 houses down, but this is just a walk across the fields and Momma can watch me go over there. Momma said we have to wait and we can make them a pie or something and go great them properly. Hopefully something will happen, for the better but we can only pray and home.

~Beth