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Life back then for simple people was about making do. The few material items passed down the family line are not the true treasures. What lives on is how they lived, not what they bought or acquired.

A once widespread custom that now exists only in the memories of those who remember, sitting up with the dead is perhaps a more humane way of handling loss. A childhood experience made it unmistakably clear that life in the South follows traditions both distinctive and deeply rooted.

More fearsome than winter by far, summer in the South is an acquired taste. We can find beauty in things that are not pleasant.