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Gail Galloway Adams

Gail Galloway Adams, Professor Emeritus of Creative Writing from West Virginia University, lives with her husband, Timothy, in an 1853 farm house on her family’s Ramshackle Ranch, near Florence, Texas. She studies Spanish, takes Zumba classes, and is still reading and writing and loving literature.

Nonfiction

Summer 2004

Olives

By Gail Galloway Adams

In the supermarket where I shop there is a new feature: At the end of the deli counter where ham haunches wait to be sliced and cheeses and breads are […]