In The Seven-Storey Mountain, Thomas Merton comments that good people are usually hidden. Several years later, I've become convinced he's right. Olive convinced me.
Olive grew up poor, in rural West Virginia, in a shotgun house that rattled every time the train went by. She married young, and her husband died suddenly, leaving her a house full of kids. As Olive neared retirement age, she had no money ...
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