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Jerry Smith's Widow and a Fevered Journey to Lost Love
The narrator recalls leaving Kentucky for Baltimore then New Orleans, catching a fever in Havana, and enduring a brutal yellow fever season in New Orleans. Amid delirium he envisions marrying Jerry Smith's widow, once his rival in love, while surviving on a Mississippi shore after being abandoned from a steamboat.
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Jerry Smith
Kentucky
Baltimore
New Orleans
Cafter
Havana
Cuba
Ione
Tata
Viotaas
Olijver
Jeremiah Smithy
Jerry
Dicrates
Jarry Smith
Shin
Merilwin
Louisville
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