“Those few who didn’t often simply took to the endless and barely habited forests. The frontier, as always, gave them a place to flee an otherwise intolerable situation. It was both a productive and easy means of escape. The cost of this easy escape was often paid by those left behind. Ungifted. Misfit. Half-breed. She’d lived with those words as a girl. Tory. Loyalist. Traitor. She lived with those words as a woman. I wonder if I’ll ever feel I belong? Rachel pushed the damp hair off her forehe...ad, then continued to stir the clothes in the near-boiling soapy water of the laundry tub. (There was something about doing the washing that made her reflective.) Growing up in the settlement after the breakup of her family, there always seemed to be someone ready to point out that she didn’t fit in, and she’d learned to put on the impassive face of her Iroquois mother whenever it happened. She pushed away the quick stab of sorrow that thoughts of her mother always brought. After so many years, the pain of her death still hadn’t faded away.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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