Make no doubt about it: I was raised in a household of two of the most righteous people who ever lived.
Both were mountain people who never gave a moment’s thought to looking back at the mountain poverty they had escaped. Both came down, out of the hills, and built a better life for themselves. One that included bathrooms and heating that wasn’t from a wood stove.
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