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From Knoxville, I left home, I wasn’t getting along with my dad. I left home and went to my girlfriend’s house and they let me come in there, that was a mistake. Her mother let me come in and live with them. Well, I’m a teenage boy and hornier than… Read More

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You moved somewhere else?… Read More

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My uncle, Uncle Frank said, “Go home and tell your mother she needs you.” Now, from Knoxville, where you were living, where did you go after Knoxville?… Read More

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I had a cousin in Pensacola, Florida, was my uncle Jake’s daughter, and she was my cousin. There was a song that came out called Nature Boy, you may have remembered that, I don’t know. ♪ Nature, boy ♪ ♪ A strange enchanted boy ♪ Well, she was always singing… Read More

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Or they were doing other things?… Read More

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It was a struggle, but the- Did they understand your love of nature?… Read More

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Housewife most of her life. There were four children, I was the oldest, and there was one girl and three boys. Read More

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And your mom, she was a housewife or she did other things?… Read More

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My father was a salesman. He was in World War II, came home, and then he worked for American Tobacco Company and then Johnson Wax Company. He had worked as a salesperson most of his life. He killed himself at 43, committed suicide. I wasn’t very close to him, but… Read More

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What’d your father do?… Read More

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High school?… Read More

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I was in high school. Read More

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How old were you?… Read More

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Well, yeah, I got a little money for that. But I was out there hauling corn too. And then also worked in tobacco patches where we had to pull the blooms off or top them or dust them. I did things with deldron, andron, and malathion without a shirt on… Read More

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They paid you money for that?… Read More

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So it was- They paid you money?… Read More

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Calves, steers, they were steers after we did it. I’d grab a whole one by the tail to hang in there. Bob Joles, he was the biggest bootlegger in all of East Tennessee, a very nice guy, but very wealthy, made all the Moonshine. My family made Moonshine. I remember… Read More