The Cruel Joke

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The Cruel Joke

The dust of the Georgia plains had a way of erasing everything—fences, roads, and the will to live. Toby was a man of simple faith and a heavy heart, a farmhand who had spent his youth dreaming of a world beyond the red clay. He had fallen in love with a girl named Clara, a small-town beauty with a laugh that sounded like wind-chimes. When she fell ill with the "Wasting Sickness," Toby did the...

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