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Newsletter · By Tessa Fontaine · English · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 4, 2026

    Hope: a failure (opens the original)

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    We’re night cruising in the Green River Game Lands south of Hendersonville, NC, when Joshua Holbrook slams on the brakes. “Copperhead!” he yells, jumping out the driver’s door and sprinting up the road before I am even unbuckled.Twenty feet ahead, in the twilight, is a 2-foot-long venomous copperhead snake crossing the road. “Just like Hershey’s kisses,” he says once I make it over to him, pointing to the tan and copper pattern covering the snake’s back. He’s smiling, practically giddy. “What a

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