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    The Roof
    The Roof
    The Roof
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    The Roof

    By Meredith Anne DeVoe

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    The cat showed her how to get out onto the roof... the stars showed her how to go higher. This short short story won the Kevin's Watch 2013 Best Prose Award.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMeredith Anne DeVoe
    Release dateMay 7, 2012
    The Roof
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    Meredith Anne DeVoe

    Meredith DeVoe grew up in Connecticut and spent several years vagabonding around America before settling in Vermont, where she married Robert DeVoe and had two children before moving to Upstate New York, and then Africa as a missionary. She has also been a cook, sawmill worker, paperhanger, artist’s model, homeschool mom, dogsled driver, and briefly, a professional musician. She has a Master's in Curriculum and Teaching and currently teaches school in Nigeria.

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