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Pierre Fontenot
October 21, 2016
There I was, a long way from home, Louisiana boy trying to do some antique business with a dealer from Kansas. A plastic milk crate filled with many objects and I say, “How much
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Pierre Fontenot
October 7, 2016
Her husband brought her coffee every morning. Not just when they were newlyweds, not just when things were hunky-dory, every morning, mornings after spats, mornings after she wished she could take back things she’d
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Pierre Fontenot
September 15, 2016
I wonder if Hitler had a guardian angel. Do pessimists have negative blood? Ever wonder what was the best thing before sliced bread? And who put the “s” in lisp? I wonder who invented
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Pierre Fontenot
September 2, 2016
First responders in our state have had one heck of a year. Between state troopers being murdered and floods uf Biblical nature, dem dat are first to get to a site uf tragedy have
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Pierre Fontenot
September 2, 2016
I remember a day in my childhood, at my grandmother’s; it’s her, my aunt, my first cousin, and me, the little boy kid. They were going through a photo album, mostly black ‘n white,
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Pierre Fontenot
August 17, 2016
My dog, Kramer, trusts me. I’d like to believe I earned it. She trusted me when she was in youth and vigor, and now, here we are, at her end, and she’s trusting me
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Pierre Fontenot
August 4, 2016
My old dog Kramer is dying, been dying all of 2016, cancer, and failing heart. She has several tumors on her right side, just before the back leg. Nothing the vet can do, but
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Pierre Fontenot
July 21, 2016
In June kids, teachers and parents are still transitioning from the end of school, but you cross over into July, and something changes; summer gets settled and official. July is the most casual of
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Pierre Fontenot
July 12, 2016
Local is knowing what the locals mean when they tell you to take a left at the old Sears, even when there’s no old Sears anymore. Local is knowing which bank they mean, when
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Pierre Fontenot
June 23, 2016
I remember a day in my childhood, at my grandmother’s; it’s her, my aunt, my first cousin, and me, the little boy kid. They were going through a photo album, mostly black ‘n white,
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