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Leaves of Pain

By Jimmy Breslin
October / November 2000

October 1, 2000 by Leave a Comment

How too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.At first, it seemed to be nothing. It was a curled-up dark brown leaf about the size of a good lock of hair and it was preserved in glass in a room in the Fairlow Herbarium in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A typewritten card alongside the leaf said that it was taken from an infected potato plant in Ireland during the famines of … [Read more...] about Leaves of Pain

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