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The document summarizes a dream the author's mother had before he was born about San Francisco and Los Angeles being destroyed in war. In the dream, one of her sons nearly lost his life but was saved and later brought peace. The author's brother would try to fight him but he would remain peaceful, as his mother wanted him to be a peacemaker. As a child, the author faced prejudice from his grandfather and father, but refused to work in cotton fields as his father demanded.

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Cottonhead 1

The document summarizes a dream the author's mother had before he was born about San Francisco and Los Angeles being destroyed in war. In the dream, one of her sons nearly lost his life but was saved and later brought peace. The author's brother would try to fight him but he would remain peaceful, as his mother wanted him to be a peacemaker. As a child, the author faced prejudice from his grandfather and father, but refused to work in cotton fields as his father demanded.

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read that Satan is bound for a thousand years. I hope I live to see that
day and I feel sure you will. A few
nights before you were born I had a very strange dream.
I thought I saw San Francisco and Los Angeles de- stroyed in two days by
some war machine, and that
one of my sons came near losing his life there, but was saved and
afterwards he saved his country and made peace with the world. I
suppose I dreamed about San Francisco because Herbert lost his life
there but, some- how, I feel that it was more than a dream, and that
you are born to be a peacemaker."

Bobbie was greatly impressed with his mother's dream and her hopes
and ambitions for him, but his brother would quarrel and try to fight with
him. Bob- bie would tell him that Dad wanted him to be peaceful and that
his mother wanted him to be a peacemaker and that he would not fight.
His brother called him
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"Cottonhead" because his hair was so white, and accused
him of being a white-livered coward, but Bobbie was patient and did not
lose his temper. His mother would
commend him for this and tell him that the Bible said to control your
temper and not let your angry passions rise.

About this time some of the prejudice which little Robert had inherited
from his grandfather and from his father, began to show forth.
Unfavorable conditions thruout the country and the low price of cotton
left Capt. Gordon practically penniless, causing him and
all of his children to labor hard in order to support themselves. He tried to
force young Robert to work in
the fields and help cultivate the cotton, but he stubbornly
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