illegal parts, because foremost among my mother’s many peculiarities was the fact that, for many years, the vast majority of her conversations had been with dead people. Thelma McIntyre, the excellent joint roller, had been dead for twenty-some years. Big Earl, on the other hand, had been just fine one day earlier when I’d seen him at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat buffet. If he had indeed been visiting with Mama, it was not good news for Big Earl. “So, Big Earl’s dead, is he?” I asked. “I imagine so,” she said. I sat there for a while, not saying anything, just thinking about Big Earl gone from the
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Thelma amd earl are dead?
