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"I don’t think Taylor loves ot her eye on Danny, our garbage uy He can lift four Glad Bags in each hand"

"Well, I’ood points too Does she treat you decent?"

"She does"

"You’re in good shape, then Don’t worry, you’d know

If Taylor don’t like sohs "She does wish you’d come visit," he says

"I will" Alice has tears in her eyes

"I do too," he says, "I wish you would come I need to meet this Alice When Taylor says she wants you to live with us, I’ to myself, this is ultra Everybody else I know is in a twelve-step prograet over their dysfunc-tional childhoods"

"Well, it’s ive ainst men Not on purpose

It’s kind of a hex Myfarm by herself for fifty years, and that’s what started it"

"You have a hog farm in your maternal line? I’m envious

I wish I’d spent my childhood rocked in the bosom of swine"

"Well, it wasn’t all that wonderful Myand had too much on her mind to answer to ‘Mother,’ so I called her Minerva, just the sahter hands did She’d always say, ‘Mister, if you ain’t brung it with you, you won’t find it here’ And that was the truth She had hogs by the score but nothing much to offer her fellow "