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Nova Berry looked like a hickory switch- tall, thin and knobby. She could trace her family line back hundreds of years in the Appalachian Mountains. These days people treated what she did as a novelty, but there was a time when the Berry women were known far and wider their natural remedies.Slippery elm for digestive problems. Red clover for skin conditions. Pot marigold for certain monthly female ailments. Nova had been forced to spice things up a bit now that there were things like Maalox and
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― The Sugar Queen
― The Sugar Queen
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In all of my years doing this job, I have never given the drug to anyone over three months pregnant; not once, because everybody listens to me, except you.
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― The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
― The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood
