"Beth Brown" is an artist and author living in Richmond, Virginia/Richmond, Virginia.

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You don't want to insult someone that you've had this relationship with, but you don't want to [disappear] and leave them wondering what happened. It's kind of like breaking up with a boyfriend.

There were cars abandoned on both sides of the road, strewn and stacked on top of each others.

Two and a half hours is just not enough time for the teachers and children.

It was up and running, with materials inside, in three days.

It seems like a small thing.

I saw the X's on the houses that had been searched.