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Read MoreA Typical American ChildhoodBy FlatDaddy When I was a kid, we lived in Waco, Texas. My big brothers, James and Larry, were born a year apart when Momma was married to her first husband. I was born five years...
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Sorry not “Lean On Me” but “Stand By Me”
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Very cool, thanks. It’s all true, you know. Story of my childhood.
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My sister and I made a teepee of matches in the center of our living room and set it on fire. Nothing burned down, but the tile bubbled up. lol
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Oh, my! That had to be exciting for everyone! Ha!
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Read MoreA Book Report using Cliff's Notes ( a non-scholarly review) The Whale filled several hundred pages the one-legged captain harpooned his dream and in the end went overboard with his quest and then in jest Ishmael told the others to call him finding later on that to be the first...
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lol, My nightmare book report was Silas Marner. I remember those days of summer that were stolen from us.
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Oh brother…they gave us such boring books to read.
Fia, thank you for replying to this piece.
j.
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Oh, thank God! For a moment I thought this would be some dry learned lecture, then the first verse got me chuckling. When Ishmael asked the others to call him, I just howled and my wife came back here and asked me what was wrong. I told her, “I’ll just have to read this to you.” So I did, and we both roared with laughter all the way through. Thank you so much for this one, Jake. We really needed that. You have any more like this? I can go put on the popcorn!
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ha ha….I don’t even lecture to my classes. All satirical and glad that it could give you a few chuckles. Thanks for letting me know this.
There is truth in this in the fact of me hating Moby Dick with a passion.
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Just please give us more of these. You now have a niche market your fans are literally howling for. Doing anything else could be dangerous.
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Cleverly penned, Jacob. Amazing write my friend. Appreciate you.
Damian
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Thank you, Damian.
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You are a really good storyteller. I could not stop reading it once I started. Almost gave me a feeling of “Lean On Me”, the movie, and “The Wonder Years”, the TV show, combined. Enjoyed this.