Let Us Build Us a City: Eleven Lost Towns by Donald Harington

Author:Donald Harington [Harington, Donald]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2011-11-28T16:00:00+00:00

Lake City was incorporated as a city in 1898. Elvis “Cotton” Taft may (or may not) have been born the same year, or the next, or, as he has told Kim, with this century. Perhaps he himself doesn’t really know. “No, he doesn’t really know,” Cotton Williams tells Kim, driving her back to her car. “He thinks he’s three or four years older than me, but the truth is, I’m three or four years older than him.”

“I wonder how a person loses track of how old he is,” Kim remarks, just making conversation.

“Oh, there’s a million and a million that don’t know their age.”

“He’s got the bluest eyes I’ve ever seen,” she says.

“Yeah, he has. Cotton was a real nice-lookin young man, too.”

“Do you remember when his wife left?”

“Oh, sure. I knew him before they was married, even.”

“Seems he had some good memories of her.”

“That’s right,” says Cotton Williams, who still has his wife of fifty-six years. “We still have some good memories of her.”

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