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Christmas Season
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By Jay Lake
Articles 8 January 2007
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17 June 2002
Columns It starts again. The baby
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begins to cough and choke.
Every year come the Friday after
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Thanksgiving, Pawpaw gets to cleaning his Locked Doors
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"this is gonna be our best Christmas ever."
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What he means is we'll eat Christmas
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sausage for months. That's good. Daddy
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don't earn much, and we won't take You can never let anyone
тАв ABOUT US government handouts, so we don't get food suspect, his mother told him.
stamps or nothing. That was the first rule she
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taught him, and the last,
Pawpaw is Ma's Daddy. On account of Ma
before she left him here
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alone with It.
the oil rigs keeping him away so much,
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Pawpaw pretty much raises me himself. Heroic Measures
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Pawpaw sits there singing "On Comet, on by Matthew Johnson
Cupid, on Donder and Blitzen" while he
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cleans the barrel of his old ten-gauge. He 18 December 2006
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Pale as he was, it was hard