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    ever notice that kids

    that live in small towns always complain that there's nothing to do around here and then when they grow up they find out there ain't much to do anyway. same with small town leaders,their always trying to attract industry to their town,create jobs etc.,boost the tax base. they want people to...
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    dead cat

    the night before last i went outside on the patio to get a coke that i keep in a spare refrigerator i keep out there,and to also bring the cat food in so the coons and possums wouldn't eat it.i try and discourage them from making this a stop on their nightly rounds. well there was another cat...
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    banana bee's

    after reading royal's dive story it got my memory stirred up,here goes. in around 1962 we moved to ramey air force base,puerto rico,since i was a kid i had never heard of it,my oldest brother is ten years older than me and my oldest sister nine years and my other sister 7 years,and my other...
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    found this on the friends and finds forum

    don't think i want to look in any drainage tunnels. http://www.findmall.com/read.php?52,184404,184404#msg-184404
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    mosquito's

    while out walking around today my little finger on my right hand started itching like a son of a gun.there's poison oak around and i thought i might have brushed up against some. when i got back to the house i washed my finger real good with soap in case it was poison oak. then i noticed my...
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    well there's usually a bunch of fireworks going off from dusk to about midnight around here

    for a couple of days around any holiday when they sell them,but this year there's an outdoor burn ban because it's been so dry,and i think there's a ban on fireworks also because of it. most people shoot their fireworks of pretty respondsibly around here,but there are some idiots also,i won't...
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    people that pass us by

    in late 1969 or 1970 they closed the cotton mill in mckinney where i did most of my growing up,behind the mill the railroad tracks ran and next to the mill was the mill block. this was housing that the mill use to own but i'm not sure if they still did,but alot of people who worked in the mill...
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    people that pass us by

    hope you don't mind the re-occuring theme of the poolroom,it's just where alot of events happened or started out. there were three brothers that lived down the street from me whose parents were a little stricter than some,they had moved to mckinney from duncan, oklahoma as their father worked...
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    people that pass us by

    as i mentioned in my last story,the floors of the elementary school i went to were old hardwoods,and the sound of people walking on them were amplified due to this. while in the fifth grade,there was a kid in the sixth grade named john wayne welch.john had some kind of disability in his legs,and...
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    people that pass us by

    the elementary school in my hometown was refered to as south ward,at the time there were 4 elementary schools the others being east,north and west.the person the school was named for was fanny finch and was sometimes refered to as this. it was an old red brick school with hardwood floors,with...
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    i think i'll give this story telling a try,y'all be gentle with me now,think i'll title a few stories "people that pass us by"

    as a kid growing up in mckinney,texas i met a few interesting people.mckinney had about 16 or 17 thousand people in the mid 60's to early 70's,it was a cotton mill town and cotton was still the primary agricultural crop still,although the sprawl of dallas was inching it's way out. we use to go...
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