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|  | | Buffoonery in the Bible Belt:A Farmboy's Depraved Youth A memoir of a drug-fueled medical education and coming-of-age in rural Kansas in the early 1970s.
From my first day in Radiology school in a dying and backwater Missouri River town, I attracted a collection of idiots and losers, exhibitionists, voyeurs, sex-starved geriatrics, alcoholic wife-beaters and drug addicts as my new friends and neighbors. I was an impressionable, naive and sexually confused eighteen year-old farm boy and still a virgin when thrust involuntarily into a world I had no intention of embracing. I somehow became the captain of this ship of fools and was instrumental in aiding and abetting criminal and anti- | |  | | The Healer Mysterious supernatural killings plague small town. New Orleans voodoo priest clashes with Native American sorcerer. Love triumphs over evil.
"There is something out in those hills, reverend, something that all men fear when they close their eyes at night, and it is primal. It's not so much the idea of meeting the Grim Reaper they worry about, but the context in which he i>appears/i>. A man can get used to the fact he is slowly dying because of overdrinking, or the pox or any number of other maladies. Or, he may meet with an accident that is swift and sure./b>
Those dying in their sleep have the greatest of luxuries. We were not i>all/i> meant to die in great luxury. Some of |
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Sunday at 7
by Pamela Ackerson
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Jason Donovan has a secret.
The Clere's Restaurant's drama has been unfolding in front of his eyes. If he can see it, so can the restaurant's other guests. But there's something the servers aren't telling him, and he will get to the bottom o |
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