Photographer Toni La Ree Bennett, Author at Memoir Magazine

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Evolving Body Language:Five Photographs by Toni La Ree Bennett

My left leg is stuck out as if I was on the verge of going somewhere. My mother will meet him for the first time three months from now.

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Fossils by Catherine Jagoe

Does it start with what damaged him—a father who only survived starvation in a series of Japanese POW camps because he was a natural scientist, a botanist, who ...

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Back to Jackfork Quarry by Stacy Pendergrast

This is the place I remember—with its pine branches, hung like lace canopies. There is the rock slab where they took turns, each first pounding his chest, then ...