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Hope & Kindness · fiction

The Forest They Called Impossible

By the time Opal Vance pushed the blade of her shovel into the pale Nebraska soil for the first time that spring morning in 1981, three men had already laughed at her. By noon, the number was closer to twelve. By the end of the week, nearly everyone around Ksk who had heard what she was doing seemed to have...

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Genre
Hope & Kindness
Audience
Adult readers
Chapters
6
Fiction status
fiction
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My Life Story Editorial

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  1. 01Chapter 1
  2. 02Chapter 2
  3. 03Chapter 3
  4. 04Chapter 4
  5. 05Chapter 5
  6. 06Chapter 6

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