For Dixie A. Miller 1965-1999

The headline screamed, or so it seemed, to those who had known her well. Said: Killer's Confession Solves Case (from eleven years ago). The headline shrieked so now at last we would know all the horror of how she was strangled when they were both drunk and high on something evil when he stuffed her body in a log. Today, his conscience broke down. She was a sweet big-hearted woman living homeless in an alcoholic fog. She kept coming around to the rooms of A.A. and even though for her we would pray, we worried her days might be few. Because he finally confessed manslaughter is the charge he will do. Twenty years in jail. Twenty years seems way too few for the Dixie we once knew.