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Shiloh

• "Shiloh" is told from the point of View of Leroy Moffitt, a recently disabled truck driver.

• As the story opens, Leroy is watching his wife, Norma Jean, lift weights.

• Leroy was injured in a trucking accident; now he stays at home, smokes marijuana, and makes things from craft kits.

• From one of his craft kits Leroy has built a model log cabin; now he wants to build a real log cabin for his wife.

• Norma Jean works at a Rexall drugstore and wants to improve her mind and body; consequently, she goes from a weight-lifting class to an adult education composition class.

• Norma Jean's mother, Mabel Beasley, frequently visits Leroy and Norma Jean; on one visit she becomes enraged when she discovers Norma Jean smoking a cigarette.

• Norma Jean is mortified that her mother has found out that she smokes and becomes increasingly unhappy with her life...

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