He stands in front of his open stove, looking happily out over the bay.

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She told of her 'mute' childhood in the tiny Arkansas town of Stamps, forced to learn her tables in front of the pot-belly stove by her grandmother's brother Uncle Willie.

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He went up his front walk and into the house, where he found Stephanie in the kitchen, next to the open, glowing stove.

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