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Lunch rush.

My daddy built this general store when he was 23, Mary says.

Folks used to visit by mule and wagon.

I am sitting in Hudson's grocery, sipping tea from a jelly jar, eating fried catfish and collards.

There are buckheads on the wall.

Black and white family photos, a mounted large mouth bass,

a few customers in cowboy hats, and I have tartar sauce on my shirt.

But I'm feeling pretty good.

Miss Jackie Waltz is out of the kitchen.

She's wearing a dusty apron.

She's tall, bones skinnyny and skin like molasses,

and she doesn't talk much, not much at all.

I enjoyed your cooking, I tell her.

Mm-hmm, says Miss Jackie, and that's it.

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