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Picking up the pieces of their broken home means reassessing their dreams for the future—dreams that Nikki’s not ready to give up. 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She knows she's let herself go a bit, but she thinks her young, skinny doctor is exaggerating. Her husband's death fourteen years ago left her to raise their twins, Grace and Greg, alone. But now that they're teenagers, doing their own things, her only hobby is watching \u003cem\u003eMessages from Beyond\u003c\/em\u003e, a show about a medium who connects the grieving with their deceased loved ones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the twins leave for college, they give Peggy a gift certificate for an exercise class. At first, Peggy is insulted. But once the sting wears off, she realizes if she gets in shape, she might gain the confidence she needs to go on her favorite TV show and talk to her husband one last time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith help from her new friends at the gym and Carmen Tavarez, the mother of Grace's boyfriend, Peggy begins to emerge from her prolonged grief and spread her wings. 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These mechanics, as the artisans called themselves, successfully lobbied for new railroad lines and other amenities they needed to open their factories and shops, and turned a town whose livelihood once depended almost entirely on tobacco exports into a bustling modern city. In Artisan Workers in the Upper South, L. Diane Barnes closely examines the relationships between Petersburg's skilled white, free black, and slave mechanics and the roles they played in southern Virginia's emerging market economy. Barnes demonstrates that, despite studies that emphasize the backwardness of southern development, modern industry and the institution of slavery proved quite compatible in the Upper South.  Petersburg joined the industrialized world in part because of the town's proximity to northern cities and resources, but it succeeded because its citizens capitalized on their uniquely southern resource: slaves. 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Skilled white mechanics championed free manual labor -- a common refrain of northern artisans -- but they carefully limited the term \"\"free\"\" to whites and simultaneously sought alliances with slaveholding planters. Even those artisans who didn't own slaves, Barnes explains, rarely criticized the wealthy planters, who not only employed and traded with artisans, but also controlled both state and local politics. Planters, too, guarded against disparaging free labor too loudly, and their silence, together with that of the mechanics, helped maintain the precariously balanced social structure.  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