"I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks."

Childhood, Fantasy, Living

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"I'm living out a childhood fantasy. Our house is in a historic district of a small town that I used to read about in storybooks."

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"My father... removed from Kentucky to... Indiana, in my eighth year... It was a wild region, with many bears and other wild animals still in the woods. There I grew up... Of course when I came of age, I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher... but that was all."

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"There's an inexplicable joy that exists on a brown child's face and in the way they navigate their world long before they discover they're hated."

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