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229 CopyrightAcknowledgments Wyatt Cooper: “Going Home,” from Families: A Memoir and a Celebration by Wyatt Cooper. Copyright © 1975 by Wyatt Cooper. Reprinted by permission of Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper Bill Dunlap: Abridged version of this essay originally published as “Roadside Attractions” in Delta Magazine, April/May 2007. Reprinted by permission of Delta Magazine and Bill Dunlap Morgan Freeman: “Why I Call Mississippi Home,” in Proud to Call Mississippi Home, eds. Mila Borden and Charles McKellar (Germantown , TN: Image Publishing, Inc., 2006), pp. 11–30. Reprinted by permission of William O. Luckett, Jr., attorney for Morgan Freeman Barry Hannah: Abridged from“Why I Write,” Oxford American, issue 20, pp. 10–15. Reprinted by permission of Jeffrey A. Varas, attorney for the estate of Susan V. Hannah Willie Morris: Abridged from “Coming on Back,” in Willie Morris: Shifting Interludes, ed. Jack Bales (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi , 2002), pp. 155–171, and Life, June 1981. Reprinted by permission of JoAnne Prichard Morris and David Rae Morris Keith Thibodeaux: Abridged (various pages used with Thibodeaux’s permission and approval) fromLife After Lucy by Keith Thibodeaux (Green Forest, AR: New Leaf Press, 1993). Copyright © 1993 by Keith Thibodeaux. Reprinted by permission of Keith Thibodeaux Sela Ward: From Homesick: A Memoir by Sela Ward, pp. 149–154. Copyright © 2002 by Sela Ward. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, NY. 230 copyright acknowledgments Dolphus Weary: Abridged (various pages used with Weary’s permission and approval) from I Ain’t Comin’ Back by Dolphus Weary (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers). Copyright © 1997 by Dolphus Weary. Reprinted by permission of Dolphus Weary ...

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