Sara I Love You: a Story of More Than One Kind of Love

Sara I Love You, is the story about a young black girl whose only wish is that her family move away from the farm town that has perplexed her young life. (Sara thinks the small town has been mysteriously and purposely separated from the rest of the world.) At the tender age of six, she is already learning to play her father's guitar. She hopes that she will become famous. Her grandmother, Misses Deeds, who truly loves her granddaughter in a way that no one else could love a child and her father who does not share her dreams, molds her. The story sweeps from a creek that is surrounded by a tiny farm town located in The Heart of Dixie to the soaring architectural designs of New York City. Her father sees to it that one of her wishes comes true. In the town of Britton, Alabama, where Sara has just moved, she meets a strange face that deliberately convinces her that not all white people hate colored people. "Sara, do you believe in God . . . you believe in God, just remember that he made us all," said Serley. Sara trips and falls, and he takes her in his arms. "Don't cry. You know I hate it when you cry," said Serley. Standing there beside him, remembering those words, and focusing on a moon that seemed frozen, her forehead touched his nose. She held him tighter, and she smiled. In mid 1970s, Sara was in Bethesda Hospital, and she is unaware of her surroundings. The forefinger and pinky finger of her right hand flutter, and her top lip moves in such a way that Serley is confidant that she understands what he is saying. Then he utters the words that Sara had waited so long to hear.