“It’s so simple, let’s get along and everything will be alright. I treat people with love. Sometimes you want to hate them, but you can’t because then I would be hating myself. Everyone around here knows each other. They call me Yay Yay in the daytime and Doo Doo at night. I am two-faced and I change after I have been drinking. I drink because of depression and it helps me get away. I am 54 and I have been drinking since I was 15 and hanging with the guys and trying to feel big. I will be honest with you, have you got a dollar so I can get something to drink? Do you know my niece? She is kind of my niece. She just got shot up by a boy in Memphis. He is still on the run and they haven’t caught him yet. I wear the Santa hat because everyday is Christmas to me.”
I just have to educate myself on a new way to tell these stories
“My grandfathers were coal miners. They raised large families: six on one side, ten on the other. They raised a lot of...







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