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The Only Daughter

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Well you are my accuser, now look in my face
Your oppression reeks of your greed and disgrace
So one man has and another has not<...
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<i&bt;
Well you are my accuser, now look in my face
Your oppression reeks of your greed and disgrace
So one man has and another has not
How can you love what it is you have got
When you took it all from the weak hands of the poor?
Liars and thieves you know not what is in store
Well, there will come a time I will look in your eye
You will pray to the god that you've always denied
Then I'll go out back and I'll get my gun
I'll say, "You haven't met me, I am the only son."

Seal my heart and break my pride
I've nowhere to stand and now nowhere to hide
Align my heart, my body, my mind
To face what I've done and do my time<-i&bt;

--Dustbowl Dance, Mumford and Sons

I utterly adore this song. Some days I want to listen to it on repeat for entire car trips. It tells such a striking story in a short amount of time, but manages to infuse every little bit of it with dripping, overflowing emotion.

I shot this back in the summer, at the sheep farm I visited. The lamb's name is Too Cute :) This was a pretty spontaneous shot; I asked Katie to pose with Too Cute and look protective, and Terry, who owns the farm, kindly supplied us with an honest-to-goodness shepherd's crook for her to hold. Katie is always wonderful at portraying strong characters and emotions!
It was later as I mulling over Dustbowl Dance obsessively that I realized they were both displaying the same emotion and story so I decided to name the photo after the song, just changing the gender to suit my image.

Model: Katie Johnson

I have a couple of pop-culture blogs up at the same time; unplanned but not unwelcome :) Feel free to read either or both of them!

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