Carolina Quotes
Both of our islands are vulnerable to hurricanes and rising sea level, and will someday, no doubt, be inundated. A sense of impermanence is good for a writer.
Josephine Humphreys Carolinian
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Interview with Wayne Catan, The Hemingway Society, January 7, 2019
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