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After a woman in rural Mississippi dies, her husband and five children begin an arduous journey to convey her coffin back to her hometown.

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clinging to some trifling animal to whom they never were more than packhorses. That’s what they mean by the love that passeth understanding: that pride, that furious desire to hide that abject nakedness which we bring here with us, carry with us into operating rooms, carry stubbornly and furiously with us into the earth again. I leave the room. Beyond the porch Cash’s saw snores steadily into the board. A minute later she calls his name, her voice harsh and strong.

“Cash,” she says; “you, Cash!”

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