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Sean of the South

Perfection

Sean of the South

Sean Dietrich

Personal Journals, S-town, Music, Alabama, Garrison Keillor, Storytelling, Story, Garden And Gun, Southern Living, Serial, Southern Culture, S Town, Old Radio, Lake Wobegon, Stories, Prairie Home Companion, Arts, Society & Culture, Live From Here, Story Podcast

5.0546 Ratings

🗓️ 3 February 2025

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

What really is perfection? 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 his column...

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Find your nearest store at foodcity.com.

0:34.0

Perfection.

0:36.4

I found her in the bathroom.

0:39.1

She wore tinfold in her hair, rubber gloves, and a pair of safety glasses.

0:44.1

She leaned close to the mirror, squirting what looked like molasses, into her hair.

0:48.9

What are you doing? I asked.

0:51.3

I'm coloring my gray hairs, she said.

0:54.0

Then she slapped me silly with a laurel box and warned me to never tell a soul what I just

0:59.7

saw.

1:01.0

Well, God help me.

1:03.2

The first thing you should know about my wife, and she will gut me like a fish and let me bleed

1:07.1

on the kitchen floor after reading this, is that her hair is not gray, not even

1:12.8

slightly.

1:14.0

This silver hair she's worried about is actually a faint streak only visible to government

1:18.9

calibrated nuclear nanoscopes.

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