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Fat Tomato Summer 008

Fat Tomato Summer 008

Relief blooms where we didn't even know to look.

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Shannan Martin
Aug 05, 2023
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One week ago today, I was driving 4.5 hours South, to Brownstown, Indiana, to serve as the keynote speaker for Second Presbyterian Church’s “Grown-Up Summer Camp.”

As you might recall, I had spent part of the previous night in the ER, trying to determine if it was safe for me to even go home, much less drive to the bottom of the state. Just getting out …

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