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Wind Blows in Sleeping Grass Author Ruth Haley-Barton and authorMaria Furlough is aFor the first time in his life, Pete has everything to lose. After years of drifting, fifty year old Pete Ryman has settled down with his potbellied pig, Pearl, in the small Montana town of Sleeping Grass a place he never expected to see again. It's not the life he dreamed of, but there aren't many prospects for a high school dropout like him. Elderly widow Wilma Jacobsen carries a burden of guilt over her part in events that led to Pete leaving