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Christmas Season
Art Gallery by Loretta Casteen
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By Jay Lake
Articles 8 January 2007
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17 June 2002
Columns It starts again. The baby
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begins to cough and choke.
Every year come the Friday after
Fiction
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Thanksgiving, Pawpaw gets to cleaning his Locked Doors
Poetry
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by Stephanie Burgis
"this is gonna be our best Christmas ever."
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What he means is we'll eat Christmas
1 January 2007
sausage for months. That's good. Daddy
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don't earn much, and we won't take You can never let anyone
• ABOUT US government handouts, so we don't get food suspect, his mother told him.
stamps or nothing. That was the first rule she
Staff
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taught him, and the last,
Pawpaw is Ma's Daddy. On account of Ma
before she left him here
Guidelines
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alone with It.
the oil rigs keeping him away so much,
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Pawpaw pretty much raises me himself. Heroic Measures
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Pawpaw sits there singing "On Comet, on by Matthew Johnson
Cupid, on Donder and Blitzen" while he
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cleans the barrel of his old ten-gauge. He 18 December 2006
• SUPPORT US likes carols about reindeer and Santa's
Pale as he was, it was hard