Mary Heitkamp

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February the 19th, in the Year of Our Lord 1387Today I turned 29, and I must confess I'm experiencing what Father Theobald calls a “crisis of middle life.” Mathematically speaking, my life is well more than halfway over, and what do I have to show for it? I have spent my entire life in the village of Wessex. I plow the fields, I pay my tithes, I try to sire additional children (may God rest the souls of the first six), and for what? To grow old drinking weak ale and dying of rickets? No. I refuse.