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““This is starting to take up too much room,” I said to myself.”
“Everything delivered had the correct address—my address—but a name I didn’t know: Edmund Conyers.”
“His name’s Pinson Plemmons.”
“There might’ve been other things.”
“Sometimes I got his mail, sometimes he got mine.”
“I’d bought the house, back when I was married, from, I don’t know, someone named Lagrone or Lagroon.”
“I thought of those types of things.”
“Whoever answered the door, man or woman, always looked puzzled until I took my right forefinger and pointed downward.”
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“Here’s how Pinson told a joke: “These three guys walk into a bar.”
“Rebecca.” Later on I would Google up Ms.”
“I’ve heard about that kind of thing happening to people.” The air smelled like Pine-Sol mixed with chicken farm.”
“Guy from Tennessee says he wishes it was dark outside.”
“His wife lit a fire under his ass, and the next thing you know, he’s invented the incineration toilet.”
““People called him Ed.”
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“I got a computer and internet, and I know how to look people up on Google.” I tried to edge off the porch.”
“He lives in the house you built many years ago.” She spoke slowly, as if to a stray dog.”
“Pinson studied geography in college, even after we had fifty states.”
“I could’ve used a riding lawn mower, too, and a better window unit air conditioner.”
“* I walked over to my neighbor’s house, maybe two hundred yards away.”
“My last job happened to be as a door-to-door salesman selling welcome mats.”
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