Blackwater Val
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After supper, Zeke Blessing wedged his old alma mater Purdue Boilermakers cap down onto his head and marched off to the fields, a fresh soda pop in hand. He spied none of the barn cats dozing in their places on the hay bales, which struck him as unusual. But his daughter Jodean was back at the pen, he could see, performing the smudging ritual again, fanning sacred smoke into the animal’s shelter and hoping against hope for . . . well, for a miracle out there.
Blessing walked along, extending a wave to the lean field hand, Shaw standing up on the hill as he went by.
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