Chapter 2

One of my first phone conversations with John before we'd met, I asked him if he thought

it was possible that maybe Capron Burr hadn't killed anybody.

If it was possible that the murder he'd contacted me about was actually just a rumor, a fiction.

No John said, there was little down his mind that it was true.

And then by wave explanation, he launched into this parable.

Let me tell you something I saw one time.

I should admit that at the time this story was completely lost on me.

Man Roger Price had worked with the truck stop together to get a little dinner.

We came back by, it was passing by the South 40 trailer park.

So Roger's one of these dudes he's a darn transmission mechanic.

He's not really talking to him, he's a good dude, but he just, you know, he only has one tooth.

And it's really amusing to see how he can balance a cigarette on that one tooth.

The whole time he's talking, it's cigarette, it's just bouncing around all over that one tooth.

And he never loses that son of a bitch.

So we're coming by, this is welcome to South 40 Cent.

And there's this girl out there walking around in front of the damn side holding a cell phone

and she's got own a pink top and nothing else.

No fucking panties, no goddamn socks, barefoot.

And I remarked that to Roger.

I remember what I said.

I probably said, my God, look at her or something like that.

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