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Nancy Huggett's avatar

What a stunning piece of writing. I didn't mean to read it, but couldn't stop! How it evokes an inner and outer geography, how Kentucky is so tied to moving and yet staying grounded, finding that ground. Oh. I will read more!!!!

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Ellen Wallace's avatar

Beautiful, evocative - my morning coffee was supposed to be accompanied by reading the news, but instead I tripped over this and now my day is wrapped in something far more thought provoking and rich. And I want to read more of your writing … thank you for this unexpected gift.

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Denise Emanuel Clemen's avatar

That was a great piece of writing.

I lost my son to adoption at 17.

I’ll be 72 soon. The depth of the betrayal, hurt, and grief continues to reveal itself. For a while I thought I had risen from the ruination and made some of my life. Now I think it’s more like I have been walking around covered in ash all these years.

Thank you for your writing.

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Sari Botton's avatar

<3

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Jennifer Silva Redmond's avatar

Compelling, evocative, beautiful. Thank you for this look into another woman's complicated, circuitous, hard, lovely life.

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Hovel Black Velvet's avatar

I loved the suggestion that there is no neat beginning, middle, end story arc to women’s, and probably all people’s, lives

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Rhaine Della Bosca's avatar

Ohhhh. Yes, riveting. This reached in and grabbed me.

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Nan Tepper's avatar

This is writing. Ordering the book right now. Thank you!

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Leslie Hoge's avatar

Oh my. This is so beautifully written. I’ve re-read it twice and will return to your story in coming days. Thank you.

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Kathryn M McCullough's avatar

This morning, your piece gave me a glimpse of those holy hills to the east of Lincoln county, where I live. The soil here is sacred, too. Thank you.

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Jodi Sh. Doff's avatar

Oh my goodness. I think I'm in love. This reminds me of the first time I read Dorothy Allison's short stories in her collection, Trash.

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Nicole Heilman Grissom's avatar

This was so mesmerizing. It definitely hit me in so many ways. Who I thought I was at 18, all the roads I took and women I was... thank you, Karen. I love it and I'm saving it to come back to again and again.

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Dorothy Dean Walton's avatar

Magic.

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Andrea Fisher's avatar

So beautiful- I don’t want to leave it

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Mary Kate Jordan's avatar

I take the next turn and the turn after that… 🫶

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