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WINTER WARMERS

IN THE SECOND WINTER of my widowhood I split wood. I had moved back to the family farm bringing with me a distressed seven-year-old, an out-of-control toddler and an ancient Jack Russell. My mother was dead. My husband was dead and practically everything in my life felt impossible. But in the midst of the impossibility I

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