Stephanie Clare Smith

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Counting the Overlooked

An excerpt from Everywhere the Undrowned: A Memoir of Survival and Imagination, by Stephanie Clare Smith, centered on one summer in the young life of this North Carolina poet and essayist.

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The guitar was pulled from a white cabinet that looked like all the other white cabinets we saw that morning.

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