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LOVER’S LEAP LEGENDS: From Sappho of Lesbos to Wah-Wah-Tee of Waco Leland & Crystal Payton ISBN: 978-0-9673925-9-2 352 pages 7.5×10 511 color illustrations $35.00 Special half-price, $17.50 post paid. Click here.
“Your great grandmother probably teared up when told the story of an Indian princess jumping to her death over a disappointment in love, but Mark Twain laughed,” observed Crystal Payton, co-author with husband Leland of a new book Lover’s Leap Legends: From Sappho of Lesbos to Wah-Wah-Tee of Waco,” April, 2020. The couple believes the godfather of American realism was right about excessive sentimentality. “Twain satirized romantic popular culture, but he was not an elitist snob,” added Leland. “He found the
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