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Southern literature (sometimes called the literature of the American South) is defined as American literature about the Southern United States or by writers from this region. Characteristics of Southern literature include a focus on a common Southern history, the significance of family, a sense of community and one’s role within it, a sense of justice, the region's dominant religion (Christianity) and the burdens/rewards religion often brings, issues of racial tension, land and the promise it brings, a sense of social class and place, and the use of the Southern dialect.
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Jesus said take up your cross and follow Me, but He didn't ast us to go out and nail ourselves to a board.
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Snow flurries began to fall and they swirled around people's legs like house cats. It was magical, this snow globe world.
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