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stubborn computer. Her ambition is to publish these as a book with the title “Jewell Hollow Stories" that she describes as “mostly all nature and local folklore."
She writes full throttle, without regard to pesky conventions and formalities like grammar and spelhng, and this as much as her choices of words infuses her writing with a raw emotional power.
That she is not afraid of errors only contributes to her charm as she flits from the purely poetic to the practical, bouncing her readers along on a country journey that is personal and poetic, jarringly different from almost all other internet prose offerings.
“I am a bit illiterate with grammar but I speak from the heart," she said.
Indeed, said Ben Mason, a fan from Castleton, “her spelhng and grammar can be atrocious but should not be cleaned up or she might lose the thread of truth and her breathless exuberance.”
She will be the first to admit she was not very good in school but she loved poetry, which was “a lifesaver for me from living in southeast Washington, D.C., with five other children (her siblings) in a small house.”
Tbday, sitting in her modest creekside cabin, with knotty pine paneling and bare timbers ceihng, she gets up from a sofa, the one near a small fireplace stove, framed by antique prints of fairies, and brings back leather-bound copies of Wordsworth’s poetry, and of other of her favorite poets— mostly the English Romantics.
She is a slim woman with long dark hair, a shy smile, and one suspects, a wild exuberance. She sometimes ponders her words before speaking and just
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