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This Life Is In Your Hands is an engrossing memoir about homesteading in the 1970s and its effects on one young family. Home-birthed and raised on 60 acres in rural Maine, Melissa Coleman certainly had a unique childhood. Her parents embraced organic farming and living off the land in what was then a exotic, hippie-ish phenomenon to outsiders. She ran around barefoot, picked berries by the handful and gorged on them until she felt sick, listened to stories on the radio [while her peers watched t
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