![]() The reason for her desperation becomes evident later when Taylor bathes the child. Along the way, in Oklahoma, she acquires a child, a little Indian girl thrust into her arms by a desperate woman. Missy, rechristened by herself as Taylor, does make it out of Kentucky in a rattletrap car that just barely survives all the way to Tucson. My own childhood and adolescence and my experience of family was not that different from hers. When I started reading this book, I immediately recognized Taylor - or Missy, as she was called then. She grew up with a determination to avoid the teenage pregnancy that sidetracked so many girls that she knew and with an equal determination to get out of Kentucky. She grew up in the unpromising soil of hardscrabble Kentucky, but she was sustained and grew strong on the love of her mother. ![]() The plants and the rhizobia prosper together in a symbiotic relationship - sort of like a family. That is because they are sustained by microorganisms called rhizobia that provide nitrogen to the plants through their roots. ![]() Members of the legume family can grow well in very poor soil. ![]()
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