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Octavia Buttler's 'Bloodchild'

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Reading the story "Bloodchild," by Octavia Buttler was very difficult for me to follow. What I do know is this young boy had a near accident that almost killed him. Kind of a near death experience that the boy was not fully understanding why because, he had lost his memory. However, he comes back from that experience with no memory of knowing what really happen to himself. After that he had gotten to know this child from the opposite sex, which was the same age he was. The young boy was not sure how to grasp what the little girl was. A alien or spirt, however he was trying to figure this out. Spoke of this girl as white around her legs, and wears a skirt with black shiny hair. When this little boy who was about 15, thought the girl was ageless

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