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Summer 2004 • Vol. XXVI No. 3 • Nonfiction |

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By Gail Galloway Adams

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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.

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