Marbles

Shyima Hall was an eight year old girl who was later sold into slavery. She was mistreated, abused, and her justice was not given till she later grew. Shyima had been staying with her captors "The Mom" and "The Dad". She wasn't able to play while she stayed with them, but she remembered one game she considered herself good at, was "Marbles". "To play we drew a circle in the dirt or outlined a circle on the street with chalk. Then each of the players put some marbels inside the circle. When it was my turn, I'd take a slightly larger marble and try to knock some of the others out of the circle. Any marbles that I knocked out, I got to keep. I had a lot of marbles!" said Shyima. So even when Shyima was suffering through the thoughts she was, this memory meant so much to her because she remembers that being one good part of what she was able to live. That "memory moment" was something she came to remember while seeing the kids that she took care of play, also proved how different they were.