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Natural Ends
A LONG THE WINDING ROAD clinging to the edge of the Ocoee River, dozens of makeshift memorials marked each tight turn. I drove past hillsides streaked with a thin dusting of snow, crossing from Tennessee to Georgia, back to Tennessee, briefly to Nort
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Their Eyes Were Watching God
IN HURSTON’S masterpiece, we meet Janie Crawford—a complex, curious, sensitive teen—as she awakens to life’s possibilities and heartache beneath a flowering pear tree in her grandmother’s home in West Florida. Navigating deep, familial wounds of ensl
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Uncomplicated Prayer
Some days, I walk the long dirt road,and beg the birds to shoutfrom the alder and cascarain hopes that I will look up.If only I could maptheir flighty unknowns. Instead, I fall, stumble, fall again,if only to be emptymaybe then, I will wear nothingne

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