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Among the dead

When she walked through my back door, the 93-year-old aunt’s first question was, “Did you grow those camellias or steal them?”

I smiled sweetly and explained, “I borrowed them.”

“That’s what I thought,” she said. “Aren’t they pretty?”

Back at my homeplace in Alabama, which I frequent for solitude as well as repartee, I visit the cemetery where my two parents and my other aunt are buried. Magnolia Cem…

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