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Romantic Devastation

Jackson Free Press | February 14, 2008

Ballast is a single family's story. It's a story that, for its scant, struggling ray of hope (bond together as family, and things won't be OK, but they may get better), depicts Mississippi as a romantically devastated place.

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Tags: Ballast, Lance Hammer

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