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Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford

Follow Me to Ground

by Sue Rainsford
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  • Jan 21, 2020, 208 pages
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  • Jan 2021, 208 pages
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Henry Law

It was easy to forget they're not like us.

You could be looking at Miss Ada and talking to her simply, and then she'd say something like

Take into account the evenings are getting long, Mr. Law.

Her father too. We'd be talking easily enough and then all of a sudden I'd remember he knew my pop and all my uncles from the day they were born till the day they died.

I suppose it was easy to forget because they made it easy. They had to, to get by.

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Excerpted from Follow Me to Ground by Sue Rainsford. Copyright © 2020 by Sue Rainsford. Excerpted by permission of Scribner. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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