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I Work At Home, In The Country, And Days Will Go By When, Except For My Husband And Son And The Occasional Ups Man, The Only Sentient Creatures That See Me Are My Chickens And Turkeys.

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An Ordinary Life Examined Closely Reveals Itself To Be Exquisite And Complicated And Exceptional, Somehow Managing To Be Both Heroic And Plain.

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