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89 • rObErTA, rEbirTH (ALTErNATE TAKE 2) You’re all this campus can talk about, Donny says, the difference between whine & wail. our hands, fir needles on the wind, a fallen metronome. I speak of spirituals, share music of cascading rock—what my mother sings— with a song on our tongues. When her heart is light, we roll out of those hills. If your Missouri strife stands strong above the plain anything like my Carolinas, corner or forest, they know you have your own Black Mountains. ...

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