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-62Redneck with Hair on His Back Denton, Texas, 1990 Standing here in his muscle shirt at the bar, with hair on his back and chest and tufted like the stuff of nests in opposing crotches of a too familiar tree, he is little more than an upright ape who has learned the alphabet. With his woman he is not gentle, preferring her in her anxious state, taking her when he will, and the children fear his thundering voice. This, God’s finest creation, whose eyebrows now have drifted from his cheekbones like continents over time until he sees clearly between them with his dark eyes and reasons well behind them in that smoking vault of the brain, where he knows what women are made for and when to come in from the rain. ...

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