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"The word that goes forth from my mouth does not return to me empty."
There's a story about a census taker who was working the Mississippi delta country between Natchez and New Orleans. Back behind one of those unpainted cabins on stilts he was interviewing a woman who was working at a wash-board as she answered the questions he put...
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