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Pastimes : Clown-Free Zone... sorry, no clowns allowed

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To: kimberley who wrote (393867)9/4/2009 7:40:55 PM
From: Terry Maloney  Read Replies (2) of 436258
 
Fascinating story, and especially that this happened at the frigging Crossroads, of all places ... Clapton's been obsessed with that place forever, for some reason. <g>

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It rather surprises me that they never got burnt out/lynched for defying whites back then, but like the writer said, 'I pause and tell Davis and Chamoun that stories like theirs aren't celebrated enough in Mississippi, that "all we hear about is bad sh--" coming from these parts'. (Up here in Canada, that's most all I've heard)

Meanwhile, this football kid is up there with Harper Lee in my estimation of American heros ... it takes some kind of guts to draw the attention of a .38, after all ... please do keep us informed of his progress at U Miss.
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