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[drbewley]

Sorry all. Brain damage has set in. Steve is the ranger. Joe is his brother that lives in Paris. (France not Texas) Pat and Bob, the parents, live in Searcy proper.

Kind of embarassing when you mess up your cousin's name.

Steve was a couple of years ahead of me at Arkansas Tech.

[rps]

Like I said when writing about Steve the first time. He is sharper than many assume. He had his degree before he went to work for the state.

Let me tell a short story. I love family stories.

Some years ago, Steve got very sick. Finally someone took him to the emergency room. Once there they diagnosed him as having a ruptured appendix. Cut him open. Then the hard part started. Over the years, all the duck shot had gathered in his appendix. When it burst, it released all that lead shot into the cavity. They had to xray him several times before they closed him up to make sure they had all the pellets. The morale to the story is you really have to have careful to spit out the shot when you eat duck.

I don't really care how true the story is. It just has a certain "right" to it.

rps