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Life Among the Alpacas

Kasey Butcher Santana

Notes from my life caring for a small alpaca farm, plus the chickens, bees, elderly dog, and humans who live here and the things that make us curious.

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    Writer. Plant lady. Jail librarian turned alpaca farmer. Ph.D. in American literature with an elderly canine sidekick. I write about our animals, nature, empathy, mothering, and what makes me curious.

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