We Must Play

[Christine King Farris, sister of Martin Luther King Jr.] says it's important for her to push past those painful memories because she wants to humanize her younger brother. Everyone has heard about King, the civil rights icon. She wants to strip away those platitudes to reveal the playful brother she knew.

"He was normal as a person could be," she says. "I really want people to understand that. I want people not to think of him as some mythic character from out of space."

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Farris says she had no inkling that her brother would become such an iconic figure. She remembers the little brother who loved playing pool, doing the jitterbug dance and telling jokes. She also recalls his nickname as a young man -- "Tweed."

"He had this tweed suit and he loved it," she says, smiling. "He would wear it so much so the boys nicknamed him Tweed."

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"I thought about all that I've been through and all these memories and sometimes it gets tough," [Farris] says. "By being the lone survivor, if I don't [write this memoir], a part of history will be left out."

Source: CNN

What Farris wishes to do is not to remember more of the deeds and accomplishments of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. but his real and human side. Life is not just about events that come and go but is made complete by the fullness of human emotions as we interact with the challenges of life and dreams of our hearts.