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Richard Marc Evonitz, a convicted serial killer in Spotsylvania County, Virginia, was convicted of rape and murder in three cases not far from Route 29.

A Special Kind of Evil

Blaine L. Pardoe and Victoria R. Hester

I have perceived that to be with those I like is enough, To stop in company with the rest at evening is enough, To be surrounded by beautiful curious breathing laughing flesh is enough, To pass among them . . to touch any one . . . to rest my arm ever so lightly round his or her neck for a moment . . . what is this then? I do not ask any more delight . . . I swim in it as in a

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman, American Renaissance Books

This distant silver November sky, these sere branches of trees, shed and bearing their pure and secret colors—this is the real world, not the world gilded and pearled. I stand under wiped skies directly, naked, without intercessors. Frost winds have lofted my body’s bones with all their restless sprints to an airborne raven’s glide.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

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