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							Aug 14 2020

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## [‘A Bend in the River’](/short-story-a-bend-in-the-river/)





The water along this curve of the river is quiet, shallow, and easy-going. In some places, the water is as still as a looking glass, a silver screen reflecting beams of sunlight and floating-by clouds. Ships of various sizes and […]




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							Apr 29 2020

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## [Old Atlanta](/old-atlanta/)





A look back at a long-gone Atlanta It’s no secret that Atlanta is widely and rapidly gentrifying, changing the geography and culture of a city that seems to perpetually seek “progress.” Gentrification, the typically planned process by which individuals in




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