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I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers flexed inside this living body.

Dee Williams

I thought: This is what the living do. And I swooned at the ordinary nature of the task and myself, at my chapped hands and square palms, at the way my wrists bent and fingers flexed inside this living body.

Tags: body, living, ordinary, the big tiny

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About Dee Williams

Dee Williams (May 1884 – December 23, 1911) was an American Negro league outfielder between 1909 and 1911.
A native of Topeka, Kansas, Williams played for the Buxton Wonders and the Kansas City Giants in 1909, and continued to play for Kansas City through 1911, playing for the Kansas City Royal Giants in 1910, returning to the Kansas City Giants for the 1911 season. He died in Kansas City, Kansas in 1911 at age 27.