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Winter 2003 • Vol. XXV No. 1 • Fiction |

From “The Spirit Autobiography of S. M. Jones”

I was born in 1836 with a veil over my face, a fact to which some might attribute the story I am about to tell. I write not to gain eccentric notoriety, but do so out of a good and honest heart, through the influence of some mysterious power. The candid reader may accredit all that is herein written, for they are veritable facts.

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