Julia Avery was born and raised outside of St. Louis in St. Charles, Missouri. She went to St. Charles West High School, was a cheerleader at Mizzou, and was a reporter intern for Reuters in ...
The man wearing a baseball cap approaches our front door. Far from the door he stops and lays the box on our lawn of mostly hot dirt. Intrigued, I pause beside the stairwell. Just visible beyond the ...