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Charles Porter was born in 1944 and grew up in Stuart, Florida, on the St. Lucie River. The family home was the same old wooden house in which his father was born. He went to work in his father's lumber yard following his father's untimely death in 1963. In 1988, he sold the lumber company and pursued his interested in the sport of dressage, an Olympic equestrian discipline. He now devotes much of his time to the schooling, coaching, buying and selling of imported horses. He continues to write poetry and music, but in 2012 turned to prose. Shallcross: The Blindspot Cathedral, won Kirkus Best Book of 2014 award. In 2017 he published Flame Vine: His Voices, to critical acclaim, and in 2020 he published, Shallcross: Animal Slippers and won Bes ...more

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	Love in the Time of Horses 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2021 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Shallcross: Animal Slippers 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shallcross: The Blindspot Cathedral 4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2015 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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