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Bean Forest

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Bean Forest
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After finishing school in a run-down town in Kentucky, Marietta Grier buys an ancient, battered Volkswagen and sets off on a journey across America in search of a better life. She doesn’t expect miracles, but she knows for sure that there’s nothing to catch in her native land for people like her. Grayness, despondency, monotony – that’s all that Pittman County has to offer. Yes, Lord, in the 70s they didn’t even know what a rotary phone was! If you wanted to call someone, you had to pick up the receiver and tell the operator: “Miss, connect me...”
“Oh, no, I’ve had enough of Kentucky,” Marietta said to herself, setting off. “Goodbye, Pittman County, I’m never coming back here again.”
And so began the first day of her independent life. And at the end of that day, a surprise was already waiting for her…
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