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In West Virginia, a little over 100 years ago, a man named____ Culver was out working. He met a lovely Native American women by the name of ______. They quickly initiated a relationship and he thought that she was bigger than life itself, but the thing that was stopping them from being together in public, was her. Back then, Native Americans were looked down upon in a way. She got treated poorly and the townsmen didn’t want her there, they were threatening to kill her is she didn’t leave. But she couldn’t because she loved ____, she couldn’t leave him. So they got married they were banished by the county to isolation away from the town.
So they started a house approximately two mountains away from the town. The grass was described as an

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