PASSING

BY

NELLA LARSEN

NEW YORK LONDON

ALFRED A. KNOPF

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For

Carl Van Vechten

And

Fania Marinoff

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One three centuries removed

From the scenes his fathers loved,

Spicy grove, cinnamon tree,

What is Africa to me?

-Countee Cullen

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