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“Our house didn’t burn down, but it was full of soot inside. The insurance said, ‘We’ll clean it for you.’

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But as this modest drama begins, Dusty is grappling with the most crushing of blows: His cherished 200-acre family ranch in Colorado has burned down in a devastating wildfire.

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It replaces a 1,600-square-foot ranch that burned down in January.

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At the time, Gonzales wrote that he and Joss had returned to the site of the actor’s San Antonio home — which had burned down in January — to check their mail.

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White supremacist groups like the Ku Klux Klan had a history of publicly hanging, or lynching, Colored teachers and burning down schools, homes, and churches.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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