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(country manners)
“Are you hungry? she said. Them boys ate me out of eggs but there’s a biscuit if you’ve a mind.”
“No thank you, Mrs. Johnson,” Mick said.
“Just call me Lee Ann,” she said. You say you’re a Hardin?” Mick nodded.
“I know your people.” She nodded in confirmation of the quality of Mick’s family. “Set down a minute.”

The older two boys were lost to her—one to the graveyard and the other stationed at Camp Pendleton in San Diego. For a while she worried about him in California with all those serial killers and vegetarians but she figured a Marine could take care of himself.