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Faithful (A Story)

I read a poem recently; it’s an old poem, first published almost two hundred years ago. It’s a beautiful tale, and a true one, of a young French boy on a navy ship, who had gone with his father on the day that a battle broke out between the French and the English. Casabiancaby Felicia Hemans The boy stood on the

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Faithful (A Story)

I read a poem recently; it’s an old poem, first published almost two hundred years ago. It’s a beautiful tale, and a true one, of a young French boy on a navy ship, who had gone with his father on the day that a battle broke out between the French and the English. Casabiancaby Felicia Hemans The boy stood on the

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About Me

My name is Jared Ratcliff, and I am a young adult, youth camp counselor, and English teacher. But… I guess you came for more than that. When I first started this blog, I described here the beautiful setting of my home in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains. But then, in the summer of 2020, I boarded a plane, and two flights and a road trip later, I arrived in my new home in the mountains of Mondulkiri, Cambodia. . .

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