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https://booksbywomen.org/wp-content/uploads/The_Promise_of_Pierson_Orchard-3x5-1-e1486714108822.png200304I’ve worked most of my twenty-five career, not as a writer, but as an environmental scientist. One of my first memories at age four is of the magnolia tree outside the shabby apartment complex on the outskirts of New Orleans where my family lived at the time. I can still feel the rough bark against […]