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- Christmas
of 1973
- "...The
Devil gits in wine bottles an' ah doan want nuttin' to do wid it
..."
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- my
grandfather?s memoirs as he wrote them
- ... I
didn?t get much schooling. We had four months schooling in the
winter but I seldom got to go in the beginning ... hadn?t
finished gathering the crop ... had to leave before the end ...
begin a new crop ...
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- Not
GQ, But LW
- We
get a lot of requests for fashion tips here at WOTS. You betcha?
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- Bluesmen
- In
the live blues game, you don't solve problems; you just trade
them in...
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- Saffron
Selections
- ...
being a miscellany of the life, lore and writings of Old
Yellow-Eyed Ned ...
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- LoveWhip
Kitchen Secrets Revealed
- As
one?s basic ingredients, such as beef and flour, relate to
condiments and spices, so exactly do rhythm and lead relate in a
song or narrative and description in a prose piece ...
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- My
Mother
- I know
of no one else who so magnificently balances hedonism and
self-discipline, a curious combination that means, "knowing
when to overindulge."
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- Horace
The Hermit Crab
- Every
animal, every plant, everything that is alive has its own special
story. No two living things have the same story ...
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- THIS
IS THE CHURCH; THESE ARE THE POUS
- when
her mind was gone to such an extent that she didn't recognize her
own children consistently, she could still remember dozens of
hymns in their entirety ...
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- At
Home on Twelve-Mile Bayou
- ... my
mother's tree, a particular live oak that grows almost straight
out from the steep red clay bank of Twelve Mile Bayou ...
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- Pre-Palms
Gang
- It
never occurred to me as a child or adolescent to ponder the
ramifications of the differences between myself and others my age
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- The
Minister's Wife
- ... I
found her in the back yard, completely nude on a frosty March
Virginia morning, making some sort of symbolic figurines out of
garbage can twist ties and pineapple chunks ...
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- Eavesdropping
At A Wedding Reception
- ... it
was acceptable to level spurious charges against Mr. Greathouse
and commit perjury in the courtroom in order to punish him for a
lack of social graces ...
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- Just
An ID Card
- At the
end of a short line of derelicts, I entered the DMV office at 8am
sharp ...
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- GRANDDAD
GOES TO WAR
- Finally,
he arrived in Burma, where he utilized his knowledge of chemistry
to construct a still in the jungle and sell moonshine made from
fruit cocktail stolen from the officers' mess ...
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- To
The Amazon And Back
- Before
meeting Gertrude Moreland at Schumpert Sanitorium in 1918 and
twice after their marriage, Dr. Pou went to the jungles of South
America to help build a railroad through what was at that time
unmapped territory
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- Sweet,
Grandmotherly Louise
- That?s
the NC Senate candidate whose ads portray her as a warm,
grandmotherly type whose heart goes out to seniors and seagulls
and so on
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