Books
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A Quiet Retreat
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A Walk in the Woods
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Appalachian Daughter
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Big Lies in a Small Town
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Big Stone Gap
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Bridgerton The Duke & I
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Demon Copperhead
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Every Bone a Prayer
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Fair and Tender Ladies
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Gap Creek
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Golden Girl
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Gone with the Wind
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Her Mother’s Grave
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Hillbilly Elegy
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If The Creek Don’t Rise
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Learning to Speak Southern
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Legacy
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Northern Lights
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Pack Up the Moon
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Pray For Silence
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Sold on a Monday
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The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
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The Book Woman’s Daughter
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The Four Winds
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The Girl Who Could Breathe Under Water
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The Glass Castle
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The Golden Girl
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The Good Daughter
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The Great Alone
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The Help
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The House in the Pines
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The Moonshiner’s Daughter
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The Stand
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The Thorn Birds
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These Silent Woods
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This Place of Wonder
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Tell Me a Story
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Vanishing Girls
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Wild
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Wish You Were Here
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You and Me and Us
Drinks
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Coffee
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Ice Tea with strawberry or peach flavoring
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Sometimes, an ice-cold beer when it’s hot out
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Water with lots of ice
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Wine, every now and then
Foods
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Any Fruit
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Any vegetable
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Chicken Stir Fry
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Fresh from the vine Cucumber
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Fresh from the vine Tomato
Hobbies
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Cooking
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Gardening
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Hiking in the Mountains
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Quilting
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Reading
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Riding my 4-wheeler
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Sewing
Movies
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12 Years a Slave
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Father Stu
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Forrest Gump
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Gone with The Wind
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Grease
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Jerry Maguire
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Land
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Me Before You
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Misery
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Persuasion
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Pretty in PInk
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Pretty Woman
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Sense & Sensibility
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Sleepless in Seattle
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The Fault in our Stars
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The First Wives Club
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The Help
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The Shawshank Redemption
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The Silence of the Lambs
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Thelma & Louise
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Titanic
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Wild
Musicians
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Anne Wilson
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Ashley McBryde
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Carly Pearce
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Casting Crowns
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Chris Janson
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Chris Stapleton
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Chris Young
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Cody Johnson
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David Allan Coe
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David Nail
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Dustin Lynch
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Eric Church
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Eric Paslay
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For King & Country
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Gabby Barrett
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Jamey Johnson
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Jason Aldean
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Johnny Cash
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Jordan Davis
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Josh Turner
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Kameron Marlowe
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Keith Whitley
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Lainey Wilson
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Larry Fleet
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Lee Ann Womack
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Lee Brice
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Luke Combs
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Megan Moroney
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Morgan Wallen
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Noah Thompson
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Patty Loveless
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Pistol Annies
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Ralph Stanley
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Randy Travis
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Scotty McCreery
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Travis Tritt
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Tyler Childers
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Tyler Farr
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Walker Hayes
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Zach Williams
Music
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90’s era
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Bluegrass
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Country
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Old Country Music
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Southern Gospel
Places
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Gatlinburg, Tennessee
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Just about anywhere in West Virginia
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Lancaster, Pennsylvania
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Louisville, Kentucky
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Nashville, Indiana
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Nashville, Tennessee
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Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
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Shipshewana, Indiana
Restaurants
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Any good Chinese Restaurant
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Fat Patty’s in Ashland, Kentucky
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Fuddruckers (are those even around anymore?)
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I forget the name, but there is a fabulous authentic Mexican Restaurant somewhere near Houston, Texas. Goodness was that some good food!
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Sweet Tomatoes (are those even around anymore?)
Songs
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7500 OBO
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Alone Tonight
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Amazing Grace
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Angel Eyes
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Atta Girl
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Awaken Me
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Back to God
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Beauty in the Struggle
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Bible and a .44
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Broke Halo
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By Your Grace
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Caught On Fire
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Chain Breaker
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Chasing After You
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Common Ground
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Daddy Doesn’t Pray Anymore
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Damn Strait
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Devil
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Different
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Dirty Looks
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Empty Grave
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Family Tree
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Fancy Like
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Fear Is a Liar
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Five More Minutes
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Girl On Fire
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Giving You Up
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God Thing
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The Good Ones
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Hair Salon
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Hate You Like I Love You
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Heart Like a Truck
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Heaven Down Here
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Hell on Heels
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Hey Girl
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Hold My Halo
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Homemade
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Human
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Hurricane
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I Don’t Wanna Go To Heaven
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I Hope
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I’m Over You
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I Wish Grandpas Never Died
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In Color
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In Your Eyes
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It’s A Great Day To Be Alive
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Johnny & June
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Lady May
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Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega
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Lonely Eyes
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Long Black Train
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Love You Like I Used To
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Maggie’s Song
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Make You Rich
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Me and God
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Mercy
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One Day Tonight
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One Night Standards
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Peace in the Pines
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Prayed For You
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Rescue
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Ridin’ Roads
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Rolling Stone
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Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’
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Shallow
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She’s Actin’ Single
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She Won’t Be Lonely Long
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Should’ve Known Better
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Slow Dance in a Parking Lot
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Small Town, Girl
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Somebody’s Daughter
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Somethin’ About a Truck
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Son of Appalachia
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Spin You Around
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Stay
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Steady Heart
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Strangers
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Stupid Boy
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Swingin’
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Tennessee Whiskey
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There Was Jesus
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Things a Man Oughta Know
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Three Wooden Crosses
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‘Till You Can’t
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Tougher
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U Girl
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Wait in the Truck
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Wanted
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Waste of Good Whiskey
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When I Meet My Maker
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When You Need It
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When You Say Nothing At All
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Whiskey and You
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Whiskey Lullaby
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Wild as You
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Wildfire
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Wildflowers and Wild Horses
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With You I am
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Years
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You Don’t Even Know Who I Am
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You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive
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You Never Even Called Me By My Name
Television Shows
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1883
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1923
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Bridgerton
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CSI
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Friends
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Little House on the Prairie
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Longmire
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M*A*S*H
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Ozark
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Sweet Magnolias
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The Waltons
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Virgin River
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Yellowstone
Time of Day
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Morning, sitting on my front porch swing with a cup of coffee, watching the sunrise
Honestly....my favorite things in life don't cost money. It's really clear to me that the most precious resource we all have is time and who we choose to spend it with.
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