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“Yer damn books. That’s where you’re getting this foolishness from? Hell, I should’ve known. You sitting around all day on your fat ass, reading them damn books, stuffing your head with fool ideas about nothing at all. Why, I oughta drag them books out to the burn pit, pour kerosene over em, and burn em up, and another thing . . . ”
I can’t exactly tell you what happened next, Doc. And I can’t exactly tell you why. Betty and me, we’ve had some knock-down drag-outs over the years, some real screamers. She’s threatened to burn my books before. Said worse things, too. So why everything went so hot and red, I don’t know. Maybe I was embarrassed, because after all, she was right, Doc. Was a waste
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