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      <image:caption>Fenton Johnson, a Kentucky native, is the author of two novels, Crossing the River and Scissors, Paper, Rock, and a memoir, Geography of the Heart. He is associate professor of creative writing at the University of Arizona. This essay was published in the Los Angeles Times on January 26, 2003.</image:caption>
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