Sophie Birdsong has Osage Indian blood coursing through her lovely veins. When asked how much, "Some," she says. If pressed for something more definitive, "Quite a bit." Quite a bit indeed, for her face is like finely polished mahogany; large, opulent eyes, dark as nuggets of coal. She's five-foot-three and a "compact load," a friend once affectionately told her. Sophie has a Christmas Candle; the two of them have a secret. And when her antediluvian, overheated F100 Ford pickup with its homemade camper shell pulls to the ...
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Sophie Birdsong has Osage Indian blood coursing through her lovely veins. When asked how much, "Some," she says. If pressed for something more definitive, "Quite a bit." Quite a bit indeed, for her face is like finely polished mahogany; large, opulent eyes, dark as nuggets of coal. She's five-foot-three and a "compact load," a friend once affectionately told her. Sophie has a Christmas Candle; the two of them have a secret. And when her antediluvian, overheated F100 Ford pickup with its homemade camper shell pulls to the curb in front of Ruth Newberry's Gift Shop and Bakery at the foot of Missouri's Taum Sauk Mountain, rising 1,772 feet above the Mark Twain National Forest, no one who visits the mountain will ever view it in quite the same way.
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Add this copy of Sophie's Candle to cart. $7.09, very good condition, Sold by Zebras Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Somerset, NJ, UNITED STATES, published 2018 by Ronald Goodman.
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