"I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded……" — Barbara Kingsolver
"I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well."
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