Texas from "summary" of The Liars' Club by Mary Karr
The very word Texas has a certain heft to it, a sense of vastness and ruggedness that seems to seep into the very soil of the place. It's a land of extremes, where the heat can be blistering and the storms fierce enough to strip the leaves off the trees. Everything in Texas seems bigger and bolder, from the sprawling ranches to the endless highways that stretch out across the flat, dusty landscape. But there's a certain beauty to Texas as well, a wildness that speaks to something primal in the human spirit. The wide-open spaces, the endless horizons, the sense of freedom that comes from being able to ride off into the sunset and never look back. It's a place that demands a certain toughness from its inhabitants, a resilience in the face of adversity that can only come from living in a place where the land itself seems to conspire against you. Growing up in Texas means growing up with a certain sense of independence, a willingness to strike out on your own and make your own way in the world. It means learning to ride a horse before you can ride a bike, to shoot a gun before you can drive a car. It means learning to weather the storms of life with a stoicism that borders on stubbornness, to face down danger with a courage that borders on recklessness. But Texas is also a place of contradictions, a land of contrasts that can be both exhilarating and exhausting. It's a place where tradition and modernity clash on a daily basis, where the old ways of doing things rub up against the new. It's a place where the past is never far from the surface, where the ghosts of the past still haunt the present. In Texas, the past is always present, a shadow that looms over everything you do. It's a place where family ties run deep, where the bonds of blood can never be broken. It's a place where the stories of the past are passed down from generation to generation, where the legends of the past still hold sway over the present. Texas is a place of stories, a land of tall tales and wild exaggerations that seem to grow larger with each telling. It's a place where the truth is always a little bit stranger than fiction, where reality and fantasy blur together in a way that seems uniquely Texan. It's a place where the line between fact and fiction is always shifting, where the truth is always a little bit slippery. But above all,
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