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Rod Dreher: The Little Way of Ruthie Leming

Socrates in the City

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The Value of Parades

Ruthie loved going barefoot she's a country girl and could not stand to wear shoes so her Paul bearers took their shoes off. They carried her coffin to its grave barefoot through the wet grass. Those people we feasted I mean it was it was amazing we had they ate and we drank and we laughed, we told funny stories about her life. The love of community and of place above personal achievement personal happiness is a lesson that readers should take with them wherever you are.

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