"The Civil War - the War of Northern Aggression - was still a vivid reality for some people, my grandmother included. The mere existence of Yankees was a difficult proposition for her. . . . Once, when I asked her what was wrong with Yankees, she said, 'They put sugar on their meat.'"
- James Conaway, Memphis Afternoons
from Startles: prelegy
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*Who’s who are you? s*he asks Horton the stuffed elephant as, from the
couch, she turns him toward and away from dim light. *You must think I’m
two years...
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