No Place for a Boy

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

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5.0 • 546 Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Sean shares about a boy in a hard place. To subscribe to Sean's daily blog, https://seandietrich.com/subscribe/ For information on events or other Sean of the South news, visit https://seandietrich.com/ To sponsor an episode, email LauraBeth@SeanDietrich.com Sean Dietrich is a columnist, humorist, multi-instrumentalist, and stand-up storyteller known for his commentary on life in the American South. His work has appeared in Newsweek, Southern Living, Reader's Digest, Garden and Gun, and h...

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0:33.5	No place for a boy.
0:37.9	A funeral parlor is no place for a 13-year-old boy.
0:42.2	They don't belong there.
0:44.3	They belong outside carrying a rifle, hunting dove, or doing something like that.
0:50.1	They should be riding bikes, throwing rocks at abandoned rusty buics in overgrown fields.
0:56.1	"'A boy should not be near a casket,
0:58.7	"'shaking hands with men who look as awkward
1:00.8	"'in their neckties as he does.
1:04.2	"'Because after 300 handshakes,
1:06.2	"'a boy starts to get tendonitis of the elbow,
1:08.5	"'and he starts to slur his words.
1:10.6	"'He's dehydrated.
1:11.9	His knees lock up, and he loses the ability to think.
1:15.7	I saw one such boy.
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