Moral Dilemmas: First Drafts &  Commentaries

Moral Dilemmas: First Drafts & Commentaries

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The Butchering
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The Butchering

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The color in the trees was finally gone and the bare limbs shivered in the early November breezes. Winter was breathing across the nubby cornfield and frosted brown pasture. It was officially cold. Even the thin clouds overhead looked like shrouds of ice. But how cold was it, really?

Uncle Dick led his nephew down to the hog pen across the leaf-strewn ba…

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