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"This collection of family stories tells of many repeat performances--over more than one hundred years and in places all over the United States. We call these repeat performances ""companion stories"" told by a dozen family story-tellers. There are repeat performances of such family experiences as making sourdough bread, icing drinks, having babies, eating watermelon, living through storms, and going to school--in places like west Texas, the Ozarks, northern Virginia, southern Idaho, Batesville, Arkansas and Bullard, Texas. These landscapes of our lives--some of them-become characters too.These are ordinary stories, from ordinary people, in ordinary places. Most every reader will find a story that echoes his or her experiences with just a small (or large) twist."

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JANE HILL PURTLE grew up in East Texas and on the Gulf Coast, taught English for many years and had a couple of other careers, including retirement. Now in Fayetteville, Arkansas, where she published her memoir, Coming Into My Own in 2009, she shares this large collection of stories from a dozen family members. These storytellers include her great grandmother (born in 1853) and grandchildren, born in the twentieth-first century.

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