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Mountain Love Lost and Found in a NC Tale of Duty
A Western North Carolina mountain tale unfolds of Mary Shank a widow who raises her daughter Minnie while competing with a former lover David Linn. Minnie and David fall in love and plan marriage only to face Marys stern opposition. After truth and heartbreak the daughter marries David and they vanish from the settlement leaving the frame house vacant years later.
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Mary ‘Shank
E. Rose Batterham
Charlotte Observer
North Carolina
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Joe Burnett
Woodtan
Jim Shank
David Linn
Cold Lege
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Myn Burnett
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