Rick Bragg Quotes
In Water So Fine, A Few Minutes Of Bad Memory All But Disappear Downstream, Washed Away By Ten Thousand Belly Busters, A Million Cannonballs. Paradise Was Never Heaven-high When I Was A Boy But Waist-deep, An Oasis Of Cutoff Blue Jeans And Raggedy Converse Sneakers, Sweating Bottles Of Nehi Grape And Orange Crush, And This Stream. I Remember The Antidote Of Icy Water Against My Blistered Skin, And The Taste Of Mushy Tomato And Mayonnaise Sandwiches, Unwrapped From Twice-used Aluminum Foil. I Saw My First Water Moccasin Here, And My First Real Girl, And Being A Child Of The Foot Washers I Have Sometimes Wondered If This Was My Eden, And My Serpent. If It Was, I Didn't Hold Out Any Longer Than That First Poor Fool Did.
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