The county seat, Jasper, was a town of fewer than four hundred people. Jimmy Carter already had his hands full with inflation and the Iranian hostage crisis; he didn’t need this. He was probably leery of being led to slaughter again. To be able to sit in the courtroom for this he was going to have to be able to go off on his own.
Both teams were undefeated. All my kinfolks could tell a story, making simple events, encounters, and mishaps involving ordinary people come alive with drama and laughter. He said we would be all right when he was gone and he was sure I would win a Rhodes scholarship when the interviews came in about a month. So we knew the guy was still there.
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