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another family’s bled-out luck.
Ouch
Ouch
Sadness filled her like water
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Haha
something better than this.
On shearing day the weather turned cool and fine.
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a second beer on an empty stomach.
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Hester was suggesting God as a coconspirator in farming gains and losses,
Haha
Valia Estep
Crystal
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Valia and Crystal were motivated only by friendship, it seemed, unless there was some vague unmentioned debt.
They all attended Hester’s church, which Dellarobia viewed as a complicated pyramid scheme of moral debt and credit resting ultimately on the shoulders of the Lord, but rife with middle managers.
Hester’s confidence in her own rectitude was frankly unwomanly. She never doubted a thing about herself, not even her wardrobe.
if Hester and Bear had bad luck, like the winter of terrible chest colds they’d suffered last year, they blamed the repairman who failed to fix the furnace and charged them anyway. But when the Cooks’ little boy was diagnosed with cancer the same winter, Hester implied God was a party to the outcome.
Something had gotten into her, yes.
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Dovey
A mighty blaze rising from ordinary forest, she had no name for that.
But like Moses she’d come home rattled and impatient with the pettiness of people’s everyday affairs.
living in fantasyland with righteousness on her side; people just did that, this family and maybe all others.
“Did you all see that one on Jackass where they tried water-skiing on a froze lake? The Jeep busted through and sank!”
saved by AA and the Mountain Fellowship church.
Haha
calamitously tilting in,
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Haha
Why doesn’t she play with Cub?
Peanut Norwood
Haha
Luther Holly.
Haha
an instrument of finesse.
Today they struck her as cannier than the people.
Bear Turnbow had a talent for attentiveness to minor insults.
Roy and Charlie
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badgerfaces,
moorits,
Effectively deep-mined and strip-mined simultaneously.
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So the slaughterhouse had its attractions, all things considered.
Ouch haha
Haha
That forward-bent posture would make ordinary men weep, but he did this all day, and made it look easy.
Very specialized skills
A woman’s place,
