Summary Of Bullhead By Leigh Allison Wilson

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The main idea in the story “ bullhead by Leigh Allison Wilson” is a reflection about stories. They might be true or false depend on the conditions and people beliefs. Wilson talks about the love of life in interesting manner. In bullhead the government officially announced to build dams over the state. The hometown of the mother was on this way and by that time many people lost their homes; they announced everyone to shift from their homes. The boy that she loved, made his love and went to Texas with his family and she never saw him again. Later on, she used to go to river and drop penny While she is doing so she a made fifty pennies for fifty years. She imagined, by throwing the pennies, as her love ghost soul would showered it. She imagined

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