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Death, and Renewal

Death, and Renewal

And other Autumns

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Katherine Howe
Oct 09, 2024
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When we first bought our house, I planted blueberry bushes. I was entranced with the idea of growing something in the garden that I could eat, as my only contact with berries while growing up involved brambles of dewberries that grew behind the warehouse of our family’s construction company in Houston. I associated berry picking with a sweaty forehead u…

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