Gladrags Aspires is the life-story in her own words of "Miss Gladys," a school teacher in the Fannin County communities of Pecan Gap, Parker Grove, Mulberry, Ravenna and Bonham. 

This is volume 2 in Gregory Hall's "Gathered Words" series, which available from Amazon books.

Letters in a twenty-five year correspondence (1923-50) with a Chinese woman of singular character are included. Against the "vital lie" about death, Gladrags' capacity to be alone emerges as a transcendent sense of meaning to be found in family and community.