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Jun 4, 2022Liked by Roy Blount Jr

Mine was in the original mid-19th century toolshed near the back of the barnyard. There were old bits of harness in the rafters, remnants of horse drawn farm implements and a row of horseshoes hanging under the old workbench. On a turbo-diesel farm, there was a dusty time portal.

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It's hard to believe nowadays that times that innocent actually existed.

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Jun 3, 2022·edited Jun 4, 2022

"One, two, three…twenty. Ready or not, here I come!"

Roy Blount Jr, you have told the saddest children's story

from tender to deadly.

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Love the term "gun hugger." Sopchoppy Pizza called their vegetarian pizza the Tree Hugger. While I'm not a vegetarian so not personally insulted by that, I'm still not a fan of backhanded insults. When ordering what they dubbed the Meat Lover's pizza, I always asked for the Gun Hugger's. They did not appreciate my sense of humor.

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An alternative term is "ammosexual".

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I always had a hidey-hole or a cubbyhole in my schools -- to read, alone, during recess. The one in grammar school was a snuggery tucked between two stone columns against a wall in a darkish covered hall right off the playground. It was just wide enough for me to fit between the two columns. I was invisible to all. A janitor discovered me there one day and I could tell he thought I was very odd indeed.

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RE: "Should i have to make it clear...."

Actually, my first thought was "what kind of dad did he have that he had to hide from him?" and then I remembered hiding from my mother in between clothes on the racks when she would take me shopping. But yeah... the veil of innocence seems to have been stripped away. :-(

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