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Randall Luce

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The City of Angels, Los Angeles, The United States
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December 2011


Born in the baby boom, educated and loosed upon the world, I’ve tried to make an impression upon it. I got myself a degree in cultural anthropology and did field work in the Mississippi Delta. I saw the first Black man elected in his county since Reconstruction.

Later I worked for aid organizations that gave medical materials to doctors in hospitals and clinics in developing countries. I saw famine in Africa. I saw bombs fall in Eritrea. There, I met goat herders who would rather starve than eat their goats; and hospitals hidden in caves. The doctors fashioned light switches from used syringes.

Then I married and I helped my wife raise two fine boys. Truly, my wife and sons don’t know their own righteousness, and that is one of the best thi
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Average rating: 4.04 · 25 ratings · 10 reviews · 4 distinct works
Motherless Children

3.84 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Smokestack Lightning

4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Black & Tan Fantasy

it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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William Faulkner
“...I would think how words go straight up in a thin line, quick and harmless, and how terribly doing goes along the earth, clinging to it, so that after a while the two lines are too far apart for the same person to straddle from one to the other; and that sin and love and fear are just sounds that people who never sinned nor loved nor feared have for what they never had and cannot have until they forget the words.”
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