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Great Migration
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Gentlemen," she says, "wherever y’all go, plant these early in the season. Wait a couple of weeks and watch. They’ll survive sun, shade, and drought. And come the second year? They’ll bloom, and that cross’ll shine. It’ll mark your victory. Every seed’s got a soul, and that soul lives in another world. These lil’ brown specs — they’re stardust with roots."
We kiss the air above her hand — as one does — and that’s the last we see of her. But Lord, how could we ever forget her?
Book I, How I, Earl
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Before I leave that peaceful Latinum hill, I sneak a few Salvan Cross seeds into the earth. ‘Cause someday, when all this dust settles and if the gods got a sense of humor left, I’ll come back here and find a garden of truth bloomin’ where the Empire once bled. Aliquando, cum haec omnia pulvis sedebit, et si dii adhuc risum habent, hic redibo et inveniam hortum veritatis florentem ubi olim Imperium sanguinem fundebat.
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― From Youngstown to Rome´s Fall: How I, Earl Jenkins, Remembered What the Empire Forgot
― From Youngstown to Rome´s Fall: How I, Earl Jenkins, Remembered What the Empire Forgot
