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Leopolds Ghost

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4. I was a bit worried about asking for directions because of the racial makeup of our road trip
Mon Jun 18, 2012, 06:09 PM
Jun 2012

And the fact that a couple of us looked like hippies.



Fortunately, there's lots of bluegrass types out in the mountains that get along well with hippies...

At one point we pulled around the corner of a general store and our driver said "I'm going to ask
that guy for directions -- NO fuck that he has a gun!", Oakleys, and an Asatru tatoo on his chest.



But like I said, many small rural Southern towns have lots of poor people both black and white.

A close family friend who took care of one of my Southern relatives had never been to a northern
city before we invited her to visit... she couldn't afford it. And she was working herself to the bone
in her 70s, keeping people older than her out of nursing homes.

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