The Southern Review, June 22nd, 2005
HARRY LEE AND MARY ANN meet me at the door. "We loved your daddy," Mary Ann says. "We'll miss him." Harry Lee and my daddy grew up, played ball, hunted, scouted timber, got rich, and got drunk together until Daddy lost two decades of pine profit to the president of the Lion's Club in a game of poker on a hand where Daddy had two jacks, and Daddy came home, took off his rings, and went on a two-week-long bender that culminated in an inglorious stunt at the Varnville country club. "Sure," I say. "I loved him, too." "Harry Lee just wanted you to know." After Daddy's stunt, he skipped town. Po...
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