He was so fortified, handsome and strong; it looked to me like the land etched him out of her belly. Spit him out of her grace. And he was, to all seeing eyes, the one, his own – because he had survived and prospered – overcome adversity that she had lain out before him. And through this he mastered himself in the great of the land.
(What it took for one man to make a home for himself in the great West of the United States of American. Tom Sun’s homestead of 1872, The Sun Ranch at Devil’s Gate.)
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