Soulmate

by Cheri Randolph

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Soulmate

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Cheri Randolph

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This photo is a self-portrait sculpture of Mr. Larry Baggett who built the Trail of Tears monument to the Cherokee Indians in Jerome, Missouri. The story goes that Larry's whole place was set up as kind of a monument to the Cherokee Trail of Tears, which goes across the property. Larry once told a great ghost story about how he kept hearing a knock at his door late at night. He'd just built a retaining wall next to his house, and right after that, he started hearing this mysterious knock. He'd go answer the door, and there was nobody there -- and the ever-vigilant watchdog who slept next to the door never woke up when the knock would come.

This happened several nights in a row, and finally an old Cherokee happened to come by for a visit (Larry was kind of a homespun mystic -- he studied Indian lore, and he studied herbs, astrology, numerology, he'd studied with Edgar Cayce, and when he was young, he'd trained to be a Jesuit priest). Larry mentioned the knocking to the Cherokee, and the guy said, "Well, yeah -- you've built that retaining wall right across the Trail of Tears, and the spirits can't get over it, so they're just congregating around your front door."

Larry asked if he should tear the wall down or what. The guy said, "No, just build some steps so they can get over it." Larry built the steps, and he never heard the knock again.

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March 14th, 2012

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