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Tag: Rural America

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Scorched by River Jordan

December 8, 2023November 12, 2023 literallystories2014

The summer I turned eleven the tiny fingers of creeks that ran off from the river went bone dry. It turned the red Georgia clay into a cracked mud, and the water line in the wells fell to a frightful low.

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