title: The Wolverton Mountain Woman: Overcoming Slandering Stalking & BULLYING
author:  Tina Ann Graves 
description: Tina Ann Graves describes herself as a southern woman who has been through hell and back. She has a daughter, Kayli, and a son, Kade, and she doesn't want them to go down the road she chose. The Wolverton Mountain Woman is her story, and she credits God for the strength to write it.
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  # THE ROAD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Jack London
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Confession
  
  
  Holding Her Down
  
  
  Pictures
  
  
  "Pinched"
  
  
  The Pen
  
  
  Hoboes That Pass in the Night
  
  
  Road-Kids and Gay-Cats
  
  
  Two Thousand Stiffs
  
  
  Bulls
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Confession
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  There is a woman in the state of Nevada to whom I once lied
  
  
  continuously, consistently, and shamelessly, for the matter of a couple
  
  
  of hours. I don't want to apologize to her. Far be it from me. But I do
  
  
  want to explain. Unfortunately, I do not know her name, much less her
  
  
  present address. If her eyes should chance upon these lines, I hope she
  
  
  will write to me.
  
  
    
  It was in Reno, Nevada, in the summer of 1892. Also, it was
  
  
  fair-time, and the town was filled with petty crooks and tin-horns, to
  
  
  say nothing of a vast and hungry horde of hoboes. It was the hungry
  
  
  hoboes that made the town a "hungry" town. They "battered" the back
  
  
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