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  Janie Crawford was raised in West Florida. She loved spending time in her front yard. It seemed as if she was always under the pear tree. She has come back to her home town where her life started and her love is.-Jennifer ** O.K, well a few days ago I was grandpa walking and I noticed the strangest thing.Would you care to know? Well good because i'm going to tell you anyways. As I was slowly walking I had past this house and I noticed this young girl sitting there. I started to say hey when I realized that she was looking up. I strained my eyes looking up trying to see whatever it was that she saw. No matter how hard I looked I couldn't see anything, there was this huge pear tree standing in my way. Then it didn't help matters when it stretched its arms widely when the wind blew anxiously by.I had asked around about the strange girl. I found out that her name was Janie and she always looked spacious.-Jennifer Chapter 2- Janie was raised by her elder grandmother when she was young. Her mother left her after she was born and her father was never found. Her grandmother always looked after her and hoped she would live a good life. She continuously tried to persuade Janie to marry a guy named Logan Killicks. Finally, Janie decided to marry him. She worried if she would ever be happy and actually fall in love with him. Mr. Killicks lived in a house with sixty acres. Janie finally decided to move in with him. Janie tells her best friend Pheoby the story about how she met her first husband. When she was a young girl, a man named Logan Killicks asked Janie's grandmother, if he could marry her. Her grandma agreed. Her Nanny thinks that she became a woman when she secretly snuck a kiss over the fence with a boy named Johnny Taylor.-Jennifer If you're new in town let me let you in on some of the biggest gossip ever to come our way. This Miss Janie lady is one of a kind. She was left by her parents to her old bag of a grandma. Of course her grandma wanted the best for her but she wouldn't mind her own business. She had big plans for Janie to go and get married to this old nasty man, Logan Killicks. She didn't want to marry and who could blame her, I sure couldn't. Anyways, she had this wild immagination to fall in love and then get married. I say she's living in a fantasy world. Nobody stays married anymore.-Jennifer **
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 * Her Nanny decided it was the right time for her to marry the man she was promised to. Janie wanted to marry someone she fell in love with,true love. Her Nanny didn't believe in true love and it working out that way. Her Nanny told her about how she brought into the world and so then that's when Janie finally agreed and married Killicks.-Jennifer

** Chapter 3- Janie can't seem to find it in her heart to love her husband. She doesn't feel for him as a wife should. She confronts her Nanny about it and she tells her not to worry but just give it time and eventually she will fall in love with him. So she trys, but still after some time passes she can't seem to fall in love with him and does not know what to do about it.-Jennifer ** Oh, sorry the story was getting long I needed to go get some water...Like I was saying she wanted true love. She just couldn't get that from her husband. Janie talks to her Nanny and she tells her to just give it time. Janie feels that its been plenty of time and she just doesn't want to be with that sloppy thing they called a man. UUUHHHHH....-Jennifer **

Chapter 4- ** ** It's strange how no one can keep a man anymore. You know what i'm saying? Look, this is what happened. You have to be able to keep up so pay close attention, you .Well, you know how how I said she didn't want to be with her husband anymore well to her surprise this man comes strollen up her walk like he owns the place.He went up to Janie and basically was like come with me, you're going to be my woman now. See with most people that don't roll with them but janie is so taken back she starts to consider it. I bet you want to know what happen when her husband got home from being in town, now don't you? Now don't lie. We all get a little nosey sometimes. Oh but like I was saying when her hubby got home she was like what would you do if I left you? He sat there looking at her with a blank expression. He tried not to show his anger and sadness but we all saw it. Anyway, she met that strange man, Mr. Starks that next morning and by the end of the night we had a new Mrs.Janie. See if you stayed in this town you would come across so much more drama and it gets better and better.-Jennifer 
 * Her husband starts showing his true colors. He thinks she needs to be doing more than what she is really doing. He feels that her duties as a wife aren't efficient enough. She finds herself not wanting to be with him and she isn't happy with the way her life is right now with him. One day he tells her he has to go into town to buy another mule. She asks how long it would take and he said, “It’s uh sorta long trip…” While he was away she met a traveling man named Joe Starks. He saw that her husband had her doing unecessary things and things a woman shouldn't be doing on the farm. When Killicks returned home she asked him what he would do if she left him. He wasn't happy about her saying that it really hurt him but he tried not to show it. By the next night they were married to eachother like had promised her.-Jennifer

 Here's a space view of Lake Okechobee.   Lake Okechobee is 40miles long and 50 miles wide. That's BIG. A Popular place to visit is Disney World. **//Janie and Jody moved to Eatonville, a small town in Florida. They were thrown back when they found out that the town had only small shacks. The town consisted of 50 acres. Jody bought 200 more acres from a land donor, Captain Eaton. Jody wants to build a post office and a store so to accomplish that he hired Janie and Tony Taylor. The rest of the town was in charge of cleaning up the roads and to find soon to be residents. He is then named the mayor of the town. His wife, Janie, was suppose to give a speech about him becoming the mayor, but Jody feels that “wives shouldn't make speeches." Street lights were put in so the town decided to get together and through a party. The townspeople want to know why Janie is with such a hard-headed man like Jodie. //**// Janie left her husband to marry Joe Starks. The wealthy were transported by steamboats to lavished hotels. People believed if you drank water from the springs you would get medical benefits.-Jennifer // For all you new investors, Eatonville is the place to be. You can come here with like nothing and leave having like everything. There is a ton of land that you can purchase, that's if no one buys it all. We're a small little town but we have a lot to offer. We just got this post office and we're so excited about it. It was on the front page of the paper. We have nice little comfy townspeople. Yes sometimes they get in your business but they mean well. Of course the more money you have the better off your going to be. But there is still a lot available to you if you don't have wealth tattooed to your name.Come and check it out for yourself. You'll be shocked by what you see (that's for sure).-Jennifer
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 * Janie and Mr. Starks moved to the town of Eatonville, Florida. Eatonville was the first black town in America. Ironically, Josiah C. Eaton was a white land owner. He sold the blacks a small amount of land. He made sure it was big enough to start a black town. Eatonville is known for its literature, art, and interesting culture.-Jennifer

Tea Cake and Janie didn’t waist anytime after Joe’s death to go and get married. Tea Cake had a job offer in Jacksonville so Janie took the train to meet him. She was astounded by the city. They would eat at restaurants and ride the trolley cars. The city was fit for the rich and she loved it.-Jennifer ** Some towns have fun places to visit or nice people or whatever the case may be. There's one thing that Eatonville has over the rest of the towns. It was the first black town in America. Now that's something that's impressive. Not everyone gets to say they live in such a well known place.If you like art kind of things, or tons of books, or different culture stuff then Eatonville is the place for you. I know after staying here for a little bit you would fall in love with it just as I did.-Jennifer

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**Chapters7-8 The main character moves to Florida. The town is ran by blacks and the only thing there is old shameful shacks. They look as if they should be taken down. Swamp plants and animals reside near everyone’s house. The shacks sit pointlessly on the sand. Then again there are so many people willing to help you at anytime you need it.-Jennifer** <span style="COLOR: #872de1; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Umm, well if your a city type of person or you don't like dirt or bugs then don't read any further (except for you Mrs. Ruu, I need a grade).It might not be much to some people but it is a lot to the people who live here. They live in run down shacks near nasty little swamps with bugs and moss and god knows whatelse. If you don't have much money and just want a place to call your own and a place with friendly faces then you need to come here. There is always someone willing to help out. So come and check it out. Hope to see you soon.-Jennifer Chapter 9 To be a "big shot money maker", you have to drive either a Cadillac or a Buick. They were a fancy and flashy type of car. To them it showed money, power, and strength. Sometimes you would see them at funerals. They might be following behind a hearse to a cemintary.-Jennifer Now look here, I don't have no kind of fancy car like a Buick or a Cadillac but that don't mean anything. Just because you like to flaunt your money around openly doesn't mean anything. It doesn't make you any better than me. Maybe I have the money but I just don't want to get jacked. You know how it is out there.-Jennifer Chapter 10 People have to find something fun to do. So to make time pass some of the townspeople would play games. Nothing to fancy just a simple board game. Some of the men would try to make it a little interesting by putting bets on the game and the people who were playing. Guys are always trying to make money and still to this day they are still trying to find every way possible to make some money.-Jennifer

Hey all you single men out there. I have a proposition for you. I know you guys like to make your money so you show it off to all your homies so here's why you need to come move out here. You can sit around all day and just bet on little games. The only way to get your money though is to win. So if you're talented at knowing who wins then maybe you could roll out of here with a butt load of money. Then maybe you would just be so lucky to beable to take me out somewhere.-Jennifer

Chapter 11 No matter what decade you were born in you will always love music. That's exactly how it is for a small town. The small town loves musical instuments. The guitar happens to be the most popular instrument played there.They sit on their porches listening to the harmony that echoes through the empty space outside that's created by the guitar players.-Jennifer I'm a music loving nut. If there is anyone out there who feel just like me then you need to come and move or visit me down here. There is nothing but music loving freaks here. Everyone sits on there porch watching the sky go from morning to night as they play there instrument.It is the place to be for relaxing and having a good time. There is never a dual moment.-Jennifer

Chapter 12 Kids in '08 go to movies with their friends,family, and with their dates. It was the same thimg like back then. There was a big screen that played late night movies. Everyone would be there weather you were young or old. It didn't matter, you were there for the same reason, to see a movie.-Jennifer

Romantic people listen up. There is nothing better then sitting outside having the stars look sweetly down upon you as you watch your favorite movie. It something about being outside under the deep darkened sky that just puts you in the loving mood. It is the hottest place to take your date. If your date didn't like at first, trust after that they will be ready to marry you. Don't believe me then go try it for yourself.-Jennifer <span style="COLOR: #872de1; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">

Chapter 13 When you're in a small town like Orange County you find yourself doing town events. It's like whatelse could you do. We have mascots for sports teams and so did they except their's was a little a different. They had a run down, kind of ragedy mule. It represented pride and love of the town. The mule ate whatever it could get ahold of. It romed around aimliously. Women tended to run the general stores in the town. The steamed powered trains were the main source of transportation for most people. People were convinced it could take them where they wanted to go.-Jennifer

Come to Orange County. You will experience an entire different way of living. Do you have a live mascot where you live now? No, exactly what I thought. If you coe here you will see the strangest things starting with our one of a kind mascot. The mule doesn't bother you he just romes around spaced without a care in the world. If that doesn't excite you enough then maybe our steamed powered trains will. If you think it's to good to be true then you come see for yourself.-Jennifer Chapter 14 Tea Cake took Janie to teach her how to shoot. He thought it was something she needed to know how to do. Like most people she started out shoting pretty awful but the more practice she had the better she got. He had her shoting at all types of things. They went out and even went after alligators. Janie got so popular with a gun that the townspeople would come and watch her shoot. It became like a movie to them in a way.-Jennifer

Tea Cakes house was very popular. Mostly because of his guitar playing. People would come out just to hear him play. Janie started working with Tea Cake like the other women did.They thought that she thought she was better then them because she stayed at home while they were outside working. She eventually got there approval. She would work with Tea Cake and when they got done they would go and make dinner together.-Jennifer

We have a lot to offer in such a small town. One of our fastest growing sites is the shooting of the gun. Most guys think it's just ment for them, HA. I don't think so. I can say for certain that it is very popular with the women. It is just as important for a female to know how to shoot as it is for a man. On top of that the women tend to be better at shooting any how. If you want to try and be brave and a face a female shooting then come and bring it on. SUCKA...and i'll have some tissues near by so when she beats you down.-Jennifer

Chapter 15 Janie thought that this young girl Nunkie had a thing for Tea Cake. Well one day she caught them together and started to run after her. She looked at Tea Cake in disbelief that he would do something to her like that. She said that he hurt her heart and he's hurting her ears with all his lies about Nunkie. He says that he doesn't have any feelings for her and can't do anything with all that chunk of a woman.-Jennifer

Howdie partner. Let me stop messing around. Yes this a small town but it's not hillbilly central. We are just like any other town. We have couples that are true to eachother and then we have our not so true to eachother couple. We have girls who chase after these men and get them in trouble with their lady but what can I say. We need some kind of entertainment around here every now and then. We like to keep it new and exciting I guess.-Jennifer

Chapter 16 Janie has beenspending more time socializing and starts hanging out with exotic Bahamians that live in the muck. She starts spending time with Mrs.Turner. She doesn't like black people but she likes white people. she believes that blacks are lazy and foolish. She believes that blacks should "lighten up de race." Mrs. Turner doesn't like Tea Cake and wants Janie to marry her brother and not Tea Cake. Tea Cake over hears this and wants Janie to stop talking to her.-jennifer

COME ONE, COME ALL, to Mrs. Turner's little roadhouse restaurant. It specializes in the best Southern cooking in all of the United States of America. Only thing is, if you are a really dark black person, you might want to try somewhere else because she might insult you. She favors light-skinned folks. Funny, though. She's pretty well-done herself.

Chapter 17 Mrs.Turner's brother came to town and Tea Cake started to feel threatened. To show his control over Janie, he beats her. After him beating her, he pampers her so then Janie does feel bad about what happens. The men in town are jealous of the control Tea Cake has over Janie. When the men in town get paid on Saturday, they go and buy liquor. Well, two men, Dick Sterrett and Coodemay get drunk and start causing ruckus. They end up at Mrs. Turner's restaurant where Tea Cake is eating. A fight breaks out and Tea Cake tries to throw them outside but that just causes more havoc. Mrs. Turner gets injured during the fight. So she starts to fuss with her husband not doing anything about the fighting in her restaurant. She's upset that he didn't stop them from destroying her restaurant.-Jennifer

We are an outgoing town. We love to have fun like everyone else. Once we get them paychecks we go cash them and go out to PARTY. We like to have drinks and chill with eachother it's not like it's just for the city or something. Sometimes we have to much fun and fights break out but that's usual when you get a bunch of crazy people together. Atleast here you don't have as many restrictions or laws or different codes you have to follow like in the city. We do have one very important one and that's just to have fun.-Jennifer

Chapter 18 Janie sees Native Americans leaving and headed to Palm Beach. They inform Janie that there is a hurricane coming and that's their reason for leaving. The news starts to spread and people watch anxiously. Tea Cake and a few others decide to stay behind but first they all meet up at Tea Cake's house. But as they watch the storm pick up severly they decide to go back to their house's. one man Motor Boat decides to stay with Tea Cake. As Lake Okechobee starts to stir up "their eyes...watching God." As they watch the storm expand Tea Cake says that he bets Janie wishes that she would've stayed at her home in Eatonville. Janie says that as long as they're together she doesn't care what happens. The water started to flood everything so that's when Motor Boat, Janie, and Tea Cake decide to leave to go to higher ground. Lake Okechobee started to fill the land with uncontrolling water so they decide to rest in a house on the hill. When they wake up they see that the flood is getting worst so Tea Cake and Janie decide to leave but Motor Boat decides to stay at the house. It got so hard for them so they decide to swim but Janie gets in rough water and so tea Cake tries to help her but as he does this a dog on the back of a cow bites him in his cheek. He in return stabs the dog to death. The next day, they reach Palm Beach and Jane thanks Tea Cake for saving her life.-Jennifer **
 * We have a great town but of course we do have our flaws. One of our biggest flaws is that our weather is uncotrollable like a kid running around the store. We can be having a nice warm day with no clouds in the sky and the next minute we're being told to evacuate. We tend to get hit hard with hurricanes because we're right on the water front, Lake Okechobee. The plus is that the townspeople are always willing to lend a helping hand if you ever need it especially in time of need. That's what we're for though.-Jennifer

Chapter 19 As they were in Palm Beach Tea Cake is forced to bury corpses from two white men with guns. They were scared of the racism there so they decided to return to the Everglades. Some of their friends died but foor the most part they all lived, including Motor Boat. Tea Cake started helping to build the dikes and when he returns home that night he complains of a bad headache. Then he is hungry but wen Janie gives him some food he's incapable of eating it. Then later that night he starts coughing incontrolably. In the morning she gets Dr. Simmons. After Tea Cake tells him the story about the dog bitting him, Dr.Simmons takes and speaks to Janie about what it might be that is causing him this pain. He believes that it's rabis. He feels that it's to late to save him but he still sends out for some medicine. Janie becomes afraid when she feels a loaded gun under the pillow. Rather than unloading it she turns it to where it's empty so if he does try to shoot her she has time to escape. Tea Cake becomes crazier and crazier and just as janie suspected he trys to shoot her. She grabes the gun after he pulls the trigger a second time and then she shoots him.

That very day she is put on trial and all her friends turn their back on her. Dr. Simmons testifys on her behalf. Janie tells the jury about her love for Tea Cake. She is found innocent and after the trial she goes and gives Tea Cake a proper burial.-Jennifer **
 * This small town is so amazing. We might not be well knnow or whatever but I can tell you that we have the best doctor in all of America. he will do anything for you and try his hardest to get you back to your regular self ASAP. He's like our little miracle in a way. If he doesn't have a medicine you need he'll put in for it and rush it to make sure it gets to you as quickly as it can. I just hope you don't get rabis because he doesn't have anything for that so he would have to order that for you. But he will do his best to make sure you're not in pain. He treats you as if you were someone in his family. Maybe you can get the privilage to meet him. Oh, and by the way ladies he is SINGLE. So you might want to think about coming soon.-Jennifer

Chapter 20 The men in the muck realize how badly they were treating Janie. To make their guilt go away they drive out Mrs. Turner's brother from the town. Janie returns to Eatonville taking only a package of seeds. She plans to plant them in rememberance of Tea Cake. She tells her friend Pheoby that she has lived all her dreams. Tea Cake took her to the "horizon and back". She says she doesn't care if the town talks about her because she's lived true love and they don't know what that is. Her whole world turns sad when she thinks about the day she shot Tea Cake. She realizes that Tea Cake gave her everything that she's wanted and more. He showed her the horizon and that puts her at peace.-Jennifer

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 * If you're looking for love and happiness then you should be here. There should be a romance book written about here.All your dreams seem to come true here even though most people think it doesn't offer anyhting. It offers the most important thing of all, happiness. Guys here treat their women as queens. They do everything they can to please them. They try to satisfy all their needs and wants. They never want to feel like a failure to their lady so they do everything in their power to be the best they can be and do their best t everything. They might not have a lot of money but they fill you with all the love in the world and that's the most important thing. So if you feel like you want true love and happiness then you need to hurry up and come here and find a good man before they're all taken. Know that love doesn't wait for anyone.-Jennifer

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