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Chapter Four  July 1, 2017 | Late Evening  By the time Callie had came inside, Hannah had stationed herself in the living room with the Nintendo, which Callie regarded as a minor gift from God. …

Note: It looks like I misdated 2 and 3, so you get Thursday's as well on today. So no post on Thursday, as you got it today, and then Friday…

Chapter Two  July 1st, 2017 — Late Afternoon  Callie stood from where she'd been crouched beside an endcap of potato chips and stretched until something in her back gave a satisfying little…

Chapter One  Ridgemont, Minnesota — July 1st, 2017  Ridgemont was the kind of place where strangers held doors for each other, drivers waved someone through an intersection, and neighbors appeared with casseroles…

Ridgemont, Minnesota 2017    The flat, rolling farmland of central Minnesota stretched for miles in every direction around Ridgemont, an enormous quilt of cornfields, soybean rows, pasture, and freshly turned black…