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How did the Gee’s Bend quilts become famous? Here is the answer from one woman from Gee’s Bend:
The women in Gee’s Bend make a lot of quilts, so when the quilts get old, we don’t keep them. We just _______ them ________ and we make a new one. I had one very old quilt, so I took it ________ and I put it near the garbage. I didn’t want it.
And one day, a man named Bill Arnett came to Gee’s Bend, and he saw my old quilt. And he said, “Look at that beautiful quilt!”
I thought he was crazy, and I said, “Here, you can have it.” He asked me, “Do you have any more quilts like this?”
So we went _________ my house, and l showed him all my quilts. Bill paid me $2,000 for three of my quilts!
Two thousand dollars?! How could my quilts be so ________I thought they were old and dirty, but Bill said they were art. Then Bill bought a lot of quilts from different women in Gee’s Bend, and he ________ them __________ in a museum! Can you believe that? It’s true.
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