Winn Collier

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Words and books, perhaps a little tomfoolery and hopefully a good dose of friendship, from Winn Collier | I grew up in a fifth-wheel trailer, a Kountry-Aire built by Amish and Mennonite craftsmen in a factory in Nappanee, Indiana. Until the sixth grade, my family lived on the road, a different town every week of the year. This nomadic life, nurtured within a family who knew how to love, provided me a gift: an experience of the diversity of land and place, the range of rascals and wide-country you’re sure to encounter if you hitch up the rig and hit the road every Friday night. In the third grade, my mom gave me a ragged-out brown Sanger typewriter, the kind traveling salesmen toted around in the 40’s. I began my first literary work, an autobiography with the understated title, My Life . It was a

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