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AFTON, Virginia (AP) — June Curry shuffles to the back door of her mountain home at dusk, slowed by a stroke, her broken arm in a cast, and opens it to greet a sweaty, out-of-breath stranger. “Do you want to stay here?” she asks sweetly.

At age 84, she doesn’t much like cooking and never really has. And she hasn’t been on a bicycle since she tried one on the daunting hills as a kid.

To thousands of bicyclists from every state and dozens of countries, she’s the Cookie Lady. A legend of the Blue Ridge Mountains little known outside cycling circles, she offers sustenance, shelter, cheer and cookies to people crossing the United States on a backroads route known as the TransAmerica Trail.

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