Igrew up in Ashville. I graduated from Teays Valley, named after the ancient Teays River, that has flowed for millions of years. This land has always had its history of water. Ancient water that billionaires and corporations now want to take from us. I have written about the rural landscape, about Ashville. My books, filled with the pages of small-town life, have been featured in Vogue, Oprah Magazine, The New York Times, People, and Entertainment Weekly. I have collaborated with studios including Paramount and been published in countries around the world. The rural landscape and Ashville has traveled to all those places, too. It’s that quiet life that I write about, and if this data center comes in, the new Ashville will bear no semblance to the one I have written about all these years be

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