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Chris La Tray's avatar

At arm's-length from me is a printout of the manuscript of Peter Stark's next book, "Tecumseh's Promise." It's a good one (his book "Astoria" is a favorite of mine). It's roughly about the Shawnee leader Tecumseh pitted against William Henry Harrison. There is a section in the book where Harrison is exchanging letters with Thomas Jefferson in which they discuss their plan to steal land by making it look like they are providing for small farmers, etc., all very hush hush, "no one must know we are discussing this!" stuff. When I think of these assholes we revere so much from the early history of this country, I'm reminded of this bomb Cora Munro drops on Maj. Duncan Heyward in the (1993) film version of The Last of the Mohicans:

"Duncan, you are a man with a few admirable qualities, but taken as a whole, I was wrong to have thought so highly of you."

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Elizabeth Aquino's avatar

I loved reading the first part of this post -- the story of you and your sister keeping your memories to yourselves was especially poignant. I wonder if you could do some intensive body work to access those memories. Surely, the body knows and remembers.

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