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  Iree Bowling has always lived in the hollow where she was born 70 years ago. As a girl, she says she did not go to school much, being afraid to leave her mother at home with her violent and abusive husband, Iree's father. Bowling now visits nursing-home patients occasionally and travels to town once a month, to shop for what she can't make. Otherwise, she is usually at home on the four acres she owns with her husband Bascum, called Bass for short.

"I was born in a big log house just down the holler. It used to have a big old chimney and Daddy would saw big logs of wood and roll them in to make a fire."

 
 
 


 


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