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When Paula Wunderlich receives a letter from absent husband Bruce asking for a divorce, she and daughter Hope travel to Wunderland Dude Ranch in the Texas hill country in an effort to restore the fami
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It was 1978, and there had been no resident timber wolves in Wisconsin for twenty years. Still, packs were active in neighboring Minnesota, and there was the occasional rumor from Wisconsin’s northwes
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