“Need makes me work here. Bills go on. I was a welder before this. I will cut 100 pounds of fish today. We are the land alligators. We cut so much fish that I don’t eat them very often. You get used to the smell. I take care of my grandmother when I get off work. She has one leg and going on 80. She raised me. We were country folk from Butler, Alabama. Everyone has been through something hard. I lost my daughter. She was sick and drove herself to the hospital and never came out. She was 24. You never get over that. I found out today one of my best friends died. I thank the Lord every morning that I get to get up another day. I am 65, some of them didn’t make it to this. I ride my bike every day to work from Plateau and take the bus when it rains. I throw the bike on the front of the bus. Let me tell you a story about my dog. Some dude broke into my neighbor’s house and he didn’t know there was a hole in the fence. My dogs pinned him against the car, they got him. You could tell where he broke the window and he was still bleeding. My neighbor told me if you ever tie the dogs up, I am going to beat you. They are a Rottweiler and a pit and they are supposed to be crazy dogs, but they love her.”