My grandmother bootlegged liquor after her first husband died, and she drank beer at her kitchen table instead of Sunday tea, trying to forget the
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Read MoreYesterday afternoon, I saw a dove ascending, soaring. But it was not as it appeared to be: It was the blue sky descending, hurtling, to
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