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    Dear Mom…

    Dec 25, 2020 3 minutes
    By Robert Boggs, Greenville, South Carolina

    IT’S BEEN THREE YEARS, Mom, and your old neighbors still don’t understand your garden in Greenville: lush southern magnolia; evergreen gordonia; dirt brimming with native pollinators, snakes and bees. You made it an Eden. I’ve done my best to care for the plants and animals you left behind, but folks here think it’s overgrown, too wild. Then again, I’ve always felt safe in wild places.

    When I

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