“There was a time, actually – you’ll see this in memories later – when flesh was many different colors. That was before we went to Sameness. Today flesh is all the same, and what you saw was the red tones…

He heard voices calling to one another. Peering from the place where he stood hidden behind some shrubbery, he was reminded of what The Giver had told him, that there had been a time when flesh had different colors. Two of these men had dark brown skin; the others were light.”

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