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Memory is a funny thing.
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Recollections slip in and outand around in time...
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...leaving plenty of roomto weave and backtrack...
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...and drift and glide.
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In my life, I've found that...
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...memories of the spiritlinger and sweeten...
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...long after memoriesof the brain have faded.
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My fondest memories areof my childhood days...
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...back in Yazoo, Mississippi.
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I can still see the town now.
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Ten thousand souls, and nothing doing.
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Where the old men sat drowsilyin straw-bottom chairs...
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... watching the big carswith out-of-state plates whip by.
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Drivers hardly knowing...
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...and certainly not caringwhat place this was.
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There was a war going on then.
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And it touched our lives every day.
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War, President Rooseveltreminded us...
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...required everybody to makesacrifices. And boy, we did.
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The cotton grew tall that year,the summer of 1942...
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...but I sure didn't.
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Matter of fact,I stayed so small and puny...
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...l was a targetfor the neighborhood bullies.
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Fortunately, I lived next doorto Dink Jenkins...
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... Yazoo's best athleteand favorite son.
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Dink?
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Where do you think they'll send you?
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Probably Fort Benning for basic,then overseas, I reckon.
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How long will you be gone?
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That's hard to say.
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If you're not home, who willshow me how to throw a curve ball?
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You promised to show me.
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Partner, you're gonna do just fine.
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While I'm gone, you'll makefriends your own age...
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...and who knows,you might even meet a girl.
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Will!
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Suppertime!
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This was a time of large families.
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