🎭 Culture Apr 9, 2026 · Joy Lanzendorfer

First Love, Faded Bloom

The American Scholar
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In 2015, I took a road trip with my family from Key West to Washington, D.C. The intention, we told friends at home in San Francisco, was to explore the South. My husband is from Kentucky, and I’d seen enough of the region to know that I wanted to see more. But as I described the things I planned to do on the trip—hike the Blue Ridge Mountains, look for alligators in the Everglades, eat a lot of barbecue—there was one thing I didn’t mention to my friends: I wanted to see a plantation.
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