The Hollow Heart of Mississippi
The heat in Mississippi doesn't just sit on you. It presses. It pushes down with both hands and tells you to kneel. I was twenty-two years old and already learning to breathe through my mouth. The Hartfield plantation sat on three hundred acres of red clay and forgotten history, half a mile from the nearest paved road. The main house was still standing, though barely—its white columns peeling...
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