Harper’s Magazine – Kathy Dobie

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Crimes Against Nature: The Many Uses of the Daniel Boone National Forest
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Any crime you find in the big city you’ll find here in the Daniel Boone National Forest, but no big-city police officer gets the chance to deal with such a variety of offenses: assault, murder, rape, turkey-baiting, timber theft, drug trafficking, body-dumping, ginseng poaching, looting of archaeological sites, DUIs and off-road-vehicle violations, illegal camping, fishing and hunting out of season.

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AWOL in America: When Desertion is the Only Option
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AWOL, French Leave, the Grand Bounce, jumping ship, going over the hill—in every country, in every age, whenever and wherever there has been a military, there have been soldiers discharging themselves from the ranks.

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The Only Girl in the Car – A Remembrance of Promiscuity
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As a child, I courted simplicity and goodness. I’d fill a soup bowl with water, add leaves from the hedge, and eat it with a doll’s spoon, slowly, until I was calm. The world was gorgeous and terrible-lightning, God, my father in a suit, the mere thought of my mother asleep … My passions disheveled me.

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