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Why I write


I waited beneath an Appalachian sun for life to pass. Then reached up and plucked a thought that formed a paper leaf.  Then frantic grabs, again, again, to make a branch.  And branches vined into a tree. Until a forest defined the sky and created me.  I write to build a world. I write to live.

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