The Box Kindred: A Short Story

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I guess what they say is true. “You can take a girl out of the country, but you can’t take the country out of the girl.”
Born and bred in the South, I grew up watching black and white television and listening to the banjo go, the fiddle sing and the mandolin wisp me away.
Walking barefoot down muddy backroads, enjoying hot summer nights, listening to the music of my youth was always happy moments I’ll remember.
However, as life would have it, once I moved away from the “sticks,” and went to college in the city, I was fortunate to meet The Boxcars.
Hosting a cancer benefit program in 2015 on campus, Adam Steffey of The Boxcars had just won Mandolin Player of the Year at the International Bluegrass Music Awards.
I must say, they were

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