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Prairie law spells it out clearly. The worse your surroundings, the meaner you're allowed to get.
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Grief has a steep curve, and each of us -- sons, wives, best friends -- has to climb that curve somehow and make it down the other side.
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Today the isobars are far apart.
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but I pretend again I've kept the prairie/
out, have battled back the smoke and dirt
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Mama died after Daddy didn't come home from the war. The bottle and pills hurried it along, but she really died from a broken heart. Aunt Orphy and Uncle Louie sold the farm in Twig and took me in. We moved to a tiny ranch house in Coon Rapids, a flat, treeless place where…
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