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- Title: Crossing the River
- Author : Shenandoah
- Release Date : January 22, 2008
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
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1 There was no one who could say hell like my father-in-law. It was the relish he gave the word, the emphasis, the zest; at once cheery and dismissive, the syllable exploded in his mouth, a brief but vigorous announcement that there would be no b******t in the sentence that followed. Should we deal him in for tire next hand? Would he want to make a little wager on the football games? "Hell, yes." "Hell, he could have had third," he would say, watching a baseball game in our den; "Hell, we've got an ocean right here," when North Carolina objected to piping water from Lake Gaston to Virginia Beach. One of his favorite stories was about the funeral of a former landlord who had lived upstairs on 28th Street in Norfolk when my husband, Michael, was small. Michael remembers the landlord, Harry, as an impeccably dressed Shriner who smoked Between the Acts cigarillos that came in a transfixing red-lettered, palm-sized gold tin. But apparently Harry was something of a scoundrel. Tears of delight would spring to my father-in-law's eyes as Ire mimicked the rolling r's and mincing accent of the eulogist, who rose to say, "One thing you could say about Haarry, Haarrry had principles." Here my father-in-law always broke into a sputtered laugh. "Hell, Harry didn't have any principles. The only thing you could say about Harry was that Harry was a bum."
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