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Many of us who aren't farmers or gardeners still have some element of farm nostalgia in our family past, real or imagined: a secret longing for some connection to a life where a rooster crows in the yard.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: April 8
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Annapolis
Maryland
Many
Connections
Yards
Rooster
Real
Elements
Nostalgia
Roosters
Life
Aren
Farms
Crows
Secret
Imagined
Gardeners
Family
Farmers
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Farm

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