Immersing herself in Dante, she also exercised, strolled in the villa's gardens and wandered through its olive groves. In addition, she wrote about her hometown of Whaleyville, Va., where she grew up on a cattle farm. What I know about is my community in Virginia - the South. There's a different kind of soul here. Different things matter.
Religion is treated differently.
Her hometown sits in Virginia's Hampton Roads region, not far from the Chesapeake Bay, where the land is marked by fields of peanuts and soybeans. The nearby city of Suffolk is a hub of the peanut-processing industry. In neighboring Southhampton County, a 1831 slave rebellion was led by Nat Turner, whose confessions William Styron relied on for his 1967 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. As a way to save herself and her parents money, she finished her degree early by taking a heavier course load each semester. Her father, Michael, is a physical therapist, and her mother, Hope, teaches trainable mentally handicapped students in Southhampton County's public schools.