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"Some folks would say there’s not a lot to do in a place like that, but it sure is beautiful in those mountains. I never lacked for something to do. Every walk in the woods was worth taking.”

"From their first days together, she had warned about not taking that river lightly. About whirlpools and eddies and riptides. That the Mississippi was a dangerous river."

"The day Evie discovered we weren’t really sisters, I pretended to be as surprised as she was, both of us staring wide-eyed at a certificate we’d found tucked inside a copy of Jane Eyre in our mother’s bookcase. Evie was ten then, and no longer aware of anything before Mama and me. But I knew that Evie had come to us almost two years old, and that she had arrived on my sixth birthday. An unexpected gift."