The Edge of Nowhere

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  • "Refreshing
  • and
  • devastating"—The
  • OklahomanDespised
  • and
  • feared
  • by
  • her
  • sprawling
  • family,
  • Victoria
  • Hastings
  • Harrison
  • Greene
  • refuses
  • to
  • go
  • quietly
  • from
  • her
  • long
  • life
  • without
  • revealing
  • the
  • secrets
  • she's
  • held
  • locked
  • away
  • for
  • more
  • than
  • fifty
  • years—the
  • same
  • secrets
  • consistent
  • with
  • the
  • rumors
  • her
  • grandchildren
  • whisper
  • behind
  • her
  • back
  • during
  • family
  • gatherings.Widowed
  • with
  • nine
  • children
  • during
  • the
  • one-two
  • punch
  • of
  • The
  • Great
  • Depression
  • and
  • the
  • Oklahoma
  • Dust
  • Bowl,
  • Victoria
  • made
  • harsh
  • choices—desperate
  • choices
  • that
  • reduced
  • a
  • once
  • soft
  • and
  • loving
  • young
  • woman
  • into
  • the
  • reviled
  • matriarch
  • she
  • is
  • today.
  • Hers
  • is
  • the
  • story
  • of
  • one
  • woman’s
  • courage
  • in
  • the
  • midst
  • of
  • overwhelming
  • adversity,
  • and
  • her
  • absolute
  • conviction
  • to
  • never
  • stop
  • fighting...no
  • matter
  • what
  • it takes.
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