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Rod Dreher: The Little Way of Ruthie Leming

Socrates in the City

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The Importance of Small-Town Life

I was listening to some of the stories after Ruthie died out everyone gathered at Mike's house to try to hold him up and he had this great line in the book we're leaning but we're leaning on each other you know. They were telling all these funny stories Ruthie's friends Ruthie and Mike's friends to cheer him up and it cheered themselves up I walk back across the the way to my parents house thinking these stories are golden, says Bob Greene. "These are stories that nobody would tell because all the writers get out well see this is something you just you mentioned," writes Greene. 'If all the people who go to college never come home it can die well' said

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