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    When They Can't Come Home
    When They Can't Come Home
    When They Can't Come Home
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    When They Can't Come Home

    By Greg Rohloff

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    Who has a more difficult life -- the young mother whose husband has died in combat without ever knowing his child, a teen-age mom trying to provide for her son while the child's father tries to break free of a drug-dependent life, or an Iraqi mother who has fled the war with her husband and now wants to build a new life in America.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGreg Rohloff
    Release dateNov 23, 2012
    ISBN9781301025411
    When They Can't Come Home
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    Greg Rohloff

    Greg Rohloff resides in Amarillo, Texas, where he wrote for the Amarillo Independent, an alternative multimedia news site. He holds a master of liberal studies degree with a concentration in literature and English composition from Fort Hays State University, and a bachelor of arts degree from Wichita State University. He teaches freshman composition at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, and at Amarillo College. He is completing a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing at the University of New Orleans Low-Residency Program.

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      When They Can't Come Home - Greg Rohloff

      When They Can't Come Home

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      Greg Rohloff

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      Acknowledgments: When They Can't Come Home was written as part of a culminating project for a master's of liberal studies degree from Fort Hays State University. Author Thomas Ricks assisted with

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