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Nov 4Liked by Barry Brownstein, Max Borders

I loved this and was so sorry it finished so soon. If you feel the urge please feel free to write a biography of your great grandmother and her family set in rural NC. I would be first in line to buy it.

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Nov 4Liked by Barry Brownstein, Max Borders

Hard to put into words what this piece means to me . I guess all I can say is, it inspires me to contemplate how good life is and then get on with it as best I can. Thanks for posting this Barry, and thanks Max!!!!!

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Nov 4Liked by Max Borders

Excellent essay. Too many Ehrenreichs today, including generations X and Z

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Your great grandmama was an owner, where the products of her labor were hers to sell, not a sharecropper or a day laborer. You doth conflate too much.

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