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This is Love

Among the Oak Trees

This is Love

Vox Media Podcast Network

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

One day in the spring of 1986, a woman in Hot Springs, Arkansas named Ruth Coker Burks was visiting a friend in the hospital. She noticed a door down the hall that had a red tarp over it, and the nurses were avoiding the room. So she decided to sneak in. Ruth Coker Burks’ book is All The Young Men. Say hello on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Sign up for our occasional newsletter, The Accomplice. Follow the show and review us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/2BmMZr5 We also make Criminal and Phoebe Reads a Mystery. Artwork by Julienne Alexander. Check out our online shop.  Episode transcripts are posted on our website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Support for this show comes from Krakan.

0:03.0

Krypto is like the financial system, but different.

0:07.0

It doesn't care where you come from, what you look like, your credit score,

0:11.0

or your outrageous food delivery habits.

0:13.7

crypto is finance for everyone everywhere all the time.

0:18.4

Krakhan, see what crypto can be.

0:21.3

Don't invest unless you're prepared to lose all the money you invest.

0:25.0

This is a high-risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong.

0:31.2

Ruth Koker Burke grew up in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

0:34.0

When she was a little girl, she remembers her mother, her grandmother, and her uncle Fred,

0:39.0

all getting into a gigantic argument one day, something having to do with money or property. And then her

0:46.1

grandmother died unexpectedly in a car accident. And at the server at the visitation, my uncle was at the casket and he was like, oh, mama, I'm so sorry,

0:59.6

forgive me mama, and all of that. my mother went running down the aisle jumped on his

1:06.2

back and they went tumbling down the aisle and she just kept saying, you blank, you blank.

1:14.0

Ruth's grandmother was buried in the Files Cemetery in Hot Springs.

1:19.0

And then her mother bought every single available cemetery plot so that there is no way Fred could be buried

1:25.3

anywhere near the rest of the family. She bought 262 burial plots.

1:31.9

Ruth says her mother told her,

1:34.0

someday it will all be yours.

1:37.1

At 10 years old, did you, were you aware that this action that your mother had taken was a little wild?

1:45.0

Well, yeah, I told her, I remember when I was little, I'd say,

1:49.0

don't you have a nice watch that I can have or something. I don't need a cemetery.

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