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… came from my father. 1. Does your family use home remedies for certain illnesses? If yes, describe. My father’s … lab chemist to put himself through business school. His commitment to science is so strong he once nearly poisoned … hospital healthcare doctor medicine superstition 20-26 By Alessandra Colaianni Illustration by Margeaux Walter …
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Night Moves
… real darkness. By extension, these populations possess a compromised understanding of the night sky as vista, a … in the skies above Padua. They were the first celestial bodies proven to be orbiting something other than Earth, thus … dark patch—insulated, on all sides, by protected land (262,000 acres of Susquehannock State Forest, an impenetrable …
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A Southern Chronicle
… upbraids the region for one fault or another. That sense of complicity and engagement makes the essays humane and modest, passionate and conflicted. It also keeps them compelling after all these years, long after … the first important essay on the South for the Review embodied much of what would follow. Gerald W. Johnson served as …
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We Write for Our Own Time
… will have upon us is not infallible, since others will come after them and judge them in their turn. It goes … this desire for the absolute very well. I desire it also. But need we go so far afield to look for it? It is … it is a good or a bad action . Later, when the time has died, it will become relative; it will become a message. But …
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Waterlogged
… build a home, alone together in the wilderness. The woman becomes pregnant. The hunter goes away on his hunts but always … in its mouth. Behind the creature are two more, smaller, also swimming, also carrying sticks in their mouths and … Wilson is obsessed with rivers. She has studied them for years—photographing them, giving presentations …
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Verandah Talk
… to consider that.  It was one of those old wooden houses accommodating two families, so often seen in Canadian towns. … on the corner I generally resolved to say his name in capitals when it was come to in the prayer my sister and I had to … got back to the verandah. It wasn’t the same after grandma died, but we still sat out nights and talked of her mostly, …
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