You know it isn't where you come from. It's where you go, it's where you are." Her eyes flashed. "You had a lot of obstacles and overcame them; I don’t know why you keep seeing that as a bad thing instead of the testament to your strength that it is." "Celia called me," Dee said quietly, sipping at her wine. Lani's anger fled immediately, was replaced by concern. "What did she want?" "Money." Dee shrugged. "What she always wants." "What did you say?" "I told her no." Dee stared at her wine and Lani exhaled silently in relief. "But she'll just ask again, you know how she is." Lani did indeed. Celia was Dee's cousin, raised next to her in the projects, and had taken the exact opposite path. She'd been involved in drugs and prostitution and in and out of too many rehabs to count. Celia continually came to Dee when she reached bottom, knowing Dee was often a soft touch. "I know," said Lani, "and you know you should tell me if she calls again. If she keeps it up, you should call the. He never harmeda soul as far as anyone ever knew.He lived for almost twenty years more. God only knows how he did it. Hedied one night, quietly and painlessly as far as anyone could determine.The coroner said the cause was exposure. He was found camped on one ofthe trestle islands under the bridge between Hope Crossing andBarnesville.* * *One particularly slow afternoon at the Blue Cat, apropos of nothingMarcia could recall, Grace asked her, "Did anyone ever tell you how HopeCrossing got its name?"Since no one had, Marcia settled in for what she expected would be thetypical self-congratulatory origin story, part myth, part wishfulthinking. She figured on a story peopled with courageous town fathers andsteadfast, self-sacrificing town mothers, hardy noble stock whose nobleaims and uplifting intentions were especially suited for a town they'ddubbed Hope Crossing.And, indeed, it began, more or less, according to expectation."It was the Homestead Act in 1862 that made Hope.
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