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Abe and Roma live on a farm in Worton, Va., with their 3 children: Charlotte, 14, and the boys, James and Clayton. They were poor. Roma worried their next …
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Karaghala Pronagy was a criminal whose life progressed as an odyssey indifferent to law. As a boy of 16 in Budapest he killed another boy. He was sent to …
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Worton has a resident prowler. Free to ramble, he has two shotguns and no wife. His night prowl takes him two hundred yards up the road from his home to …