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BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR - Wendell Berry's introduction to Jayber Crow.
This article was posted to Jayber on 2 August 2005 by to the following categories: Family.
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Well, as you've probably guessed by now, Mandy and I are back from Washington. On our way there, it just so happened that our flight left Minneapolis around the same time that my Dad left for Ukraine.
We were able to meet up at Dad's gate right before our planes took off. Nice timing.
