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My Superpower

When Lea-Anne Jackson’s little sister was diagnosed with leukemia, Lea-Anne was convinced she had a superpower that would save her. Then one day, it stopped working.

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We discover our family is connected to this other one, and that friend to another one, until we all learn how we are woven into the great sweep of Southern history.

Let’s not get so cultured we’re blind, folks.

Plus, Chuck runs down the three cracking good stories we’re publishing in Salvation South this week.

Guitarist and singer Jake Xerxes Fussell grew up steeped in folklore, thanks to his musicologist father and textile artist mother. Like his parents, the younger Fussell is always searching through the back catalogs of Southern culture — but rendering art that is always of the moment.

An Arkansas veteran and professor unearths the South’s ambiguous tracks.

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A North Florida cattleman looks back and wonders, what happens when you can no longer afford to love the thing you love the most?

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Lea-Anne Jackson

My Superpower

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