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Study Guide

The Color Purple Letter Seventy

By Alice Walker

Letter Seventy

A letter from Nettie.
Corrine is dying.
Nettie sits Samuel down with Corrine and tells them about Olivia and Adam. That she is actually their aunt and that her older sister, Celie, is the children’s mother.
Corrine refuses to believe it and says that Nettie and Samuel are just lying to her.
Nettie remembers how Celie once said that she saw Corrine and Olivia in a cloth store. Corrine, unfortunately, doesn’t remember the encounter with Celie.