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She is a friend of the mountains and visits them like a friend. Get it today with same day delivery, order pickup or drive up. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Shepherd sent her manuscript to a novelist friend called neil gunn.
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