36. Positive-Negative Sentence

My sentence:

I was told to dream (but I wasn't to play Lafitte, Gentleman Pirate), I was taught small talk (but honest communication was never mentioned), and I was instructed to always be gracious to everyone (unless, of course, they were black.) I was a white female child growing up in the Deep South.

I will continue to work on another sentence example as this one merely copies the example in the Portfolio Packet.