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James Toney, at his mother’s burial, 2012

The news has been so bad this week that I want to offer you something beautiful and upbuilding here on Friday. These are excerpts from The Little Way of Ruthie Leming.

Miss Clophine, as we knew her, was very poor and rough-hewn. She had been born into a Cajun farm family, and married to James’s father, Mr. Huey, …

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