"Colored Waiting Room captures the reader's attention from beginning to end. The main character, Alberta Graham takes us through the highs and lows of her personal journey, to which many women have gone through and still going through in today's workplace. Thank you Patricia Pope, for bringing to light the struggles, joys and triumphs of all the Alberta Grahams in the world."

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For years, Alberta fought to avoid this hour of reckoning, when everything that had occurred would be reduced to front-page rhetoric and recyclable mush. But fate intervened, causing her to believe in the worst type of disease - a virus that develops, moves and settles, all in silence - hatred. Nothing mattered but revenge. Getting even with those whom she believed were a part of her destruction; getting even, in the most irrational method conceivable, she felt, would wipe the slate clean for her years of humiliation at TVA, and the years of racial discrimination others had experienced. This was her hour of self-actualization.

As she crossed the small concrete room, Alberta Graham counted each stick of dynamite stacked neatly on the shelf. The count was the same as five minutes earlier. Exactly fifty pieces. With trembling fingers she wiped sweat from her brow, and stood staring at the explosives. Satisfied, she backed away.

Cherokee Nuclear Plant had proved easy to enter without detection for Alberta. She entered with a sense of well-being. The Westside Wind Tunnel, overgrown and forgotten, opened as the Red Sea and cleared a path for her to escape further into her fantasy, into a world that would have an ending. A few clips of the underbrush and she ran the half mile stretch to safety, laughing aloud at the incompetence of the security force.

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