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Mary Elizabeth Fricke has lived her entire life within five miles of the Missouri River. She and her husband of 43 years have lived 40 of those years on a farm that has been consistently owned and operated by his family for five generations. They have two grown sons, married to wonderful women, and two beautiful grandchildren.A graduate of the Writer's Institute of America and a member of the Heartland Writers Guild, she has published a number of articles in various forums and magazines.  She is also a prolific ghostwriter.Her stories, based in rural Mid-Western areas, concern the unique but quickly vanishing way of life on the family farm as well as other mysterious intricacies that ev...