I am writing this on my birthday. Good time for reflection. Which I am doing in the form of a story that was told to me, many years ago. I have repeated it often since then, to students, to friends, and once at a literary conference. This is the first time I have put it on paper. Reflect with me if you like. The setting is Kansas. Sometime in the 1890s. The principle character is an elderly farmer. Widowed now these many years. He and his wife had come out after the Civil War and homesteaded the land. There they...

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