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A Legacy of Stories

is a 1963 film about a poor family who live together on the mountain homestead that the narrator’s grandfather established a hundred or so years before. The mother and father, their passel of children, and the father’s parents all live together in the same house. The oldest child in the family is named after his father and is called by that name plus “Boy” tagged on the end. Each night, after all the Spencers are tucked in bed and the lights are out, they call out to each

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