"I'm getting to know music again. And it is getting to know me...And I know that all the time I was trying to get out of the dust, the fact is, what I am, I am because of the dust. And what I am is good enough. even for me." Autumn 1935 Page 222
By the end of the novel, Billie Jo realizes that even though the dust has changed her, it's for the better. She's a better person because of the dust and her mother and brother's deaths. Billie Jo has finally realized and accepted who she is.
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