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Celie
Celie is an African American woman living in Georgia and has lived a lot of her life with a Mona Lisa smile, sources that have interviewed her have pieced together her story. For the first 14 years of Celie’s life, she lived with her abusive father who sexually abused her and her beautiful younger sister, Nettie. She had two children by her father that were stolen by him and presumably killed. Celie’s life took a turn when Mr._____ asked for her sisters’ hand in marriage, but her father refused to let her marry, but offered Celie instead to him. She entered this loveless marriage with Mr._____ and he frequently beat her. Mr._____ had an affair with a famous lounge singer, Shug Avery, whom Celie has a fascination for. Shug came into town for a show and Celie was fettered by Mr. ____’s orders that she must stay home. Nettie took refuge in Mr.____‘s home from her father, and he made advances on her just to be rejected, so he resolutely sent her out. Celie didn’t hear from her again and assumed she was dead.
Mr. ____’s son, Harpo, married a strong bodied woman named Sophia. Harpo tried to beat Sophia into submitting to his every order, but looked comical, as she beat him harder in return. Shug fell sick and went to visit Mr.____ and soon became very good friends
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Shug returned with a new husband, Grady, and despite having a husband, had sexual relations with Celie. Shug talked about letters Mr.____ had been hiding away to Celie, and they investigate to find the letters were written by Nettie. They learned that Nettie had been in Africa with a missionary couple, Samuel and Corrine, and their two adopted children, Celie’s biological children, and that her father isn’t actually her father, but step-father. Corrine died and Celie visited her father to confirm Nettie’s story, and it is

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