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Never get back on the horse, because it’s going to throw you every damn chance it gets.
their piece of American pie went rotten.
The first to fall in any war are forgotten.
His only advice was to be careful in Unicoi because there were folks down there mean enough to hang an elephant. I said okay, thinking it was an expression his people had. But no. They gave the death penalty to an elephant there one time. He said if I was ever in a library to look it up, but try not to look at the photos because the sight of an elephant hanging was not an easy thing to forget.
The clouds were scooting by, throwing shadows like a herd of wild monsters rumpusing over the field, and I was right there with them.
Aunts standing close in the kitchen like cigarettes in the pack, uncles splayed on furniture like butts in the ashtray.
Trust the road. Because nobody stays, in the long run you’re on your own with your ghosts.
