Woodcarver's Secret
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Last published Sat, Jun 18, 2016
In the early twenty-first century a woman in Taos, New Mexico, falls heir to an extraordinary mystical artifact, a carved wooden box, which she discovers has a long and complex history. What follows is a glimpse at that history.
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