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    On the Way
    On the Way
    On the Way
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    On the Way

    By Penny Villegas

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    This book is a collection of poems and photographs.

    This book is a collection of poems and photographs.

    This book is a collection of poems and photographs.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGlobal Summit House
    Release dateSep 21, 2020
    ISBN9781636499642
    On the Way
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    Penny Villegas

    Born into a small farming community, I went to a one room country school house, all 8 grades there. Since there were no school busses to take me to junior high, as we called it, or senior high, I went to live with my grandmother in Rock Island. These advanced schools had more than one thousand students, with wardrobes and vocabulary well beyond my country ways. I then went to the Catholic women's college which teamed up with the Catholic men's college for parties. At one of these I met a handsome man from Colombia: we fell in love, or hearts melded in a love that would last 60 years. During these years, we had five children, we traveled, and we went to Colombia to live. The years in Medellin were the fertile ground for The Heart is Witness.

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