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Weekly Contest #352
Cimarron, Oklahoma; April 1937 ”Well, Rudy, shall we spend the next ten minutes chewing the fat, or would you rather I just get the truth over with?”I don’t reckon that’s how most doctors disclose the inevitable to their patients. Delicacy seems as if it ought to be generously heaped alongside the act of informing a man whether he’s likely to live or die.Here in Cimarron, though, folks lost time and patience for things as frivolous as tact a long time ago.“Oh, I can handle it, Doc.” I pull in a long, leisurely gulp of air, and the breath cos...
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