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Dedication
Oct 28, 2019 • 00:00:40
For my mom, the rock against whom I have pushed. You’ve shown me where my work was, and that’s what I’ve needed to find; that’s [...]
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Poem
Nov 4, 2019 • 00:00:51
From Proverbs and Tiny Songs You walking, your footsteps arethe road, and nothing else;there is no road, walker,you make the road by walking.By walking you make [...]
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Preface
Nov 4, 2019 • 00:08:21
They say to be careful when pointing a finger at someone else because you always have three pointing back at yourself. Never have I felt [...]
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Prologue
Nov 4, 2019 • 00:03:58
When I was a junior in college, I upgraded my employment situation from throwing pizzas at Sammy’s to serving drinks across the street at Houligan’s [...]
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Chapter 1 [Part One | Childhood; Barron (1963-1971)]
Nov 4, 2019 • 00:06:04
I was born and raised in Barron County, a humble, rural area in northwest Wisconsin. In high school, I learned from my mom, who was [...]
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Chapter 2
Nov 4, 2019 • 00:05:08
Near our house in Barron was a dam that created a small body of water, just a widening of the Yellow River really, which was [...]
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Chapter 3
Nov 4, 2019 • 00:12:21
From what I understand, the complexion of this homogenous white-bread area has changed quite a bit in recent decades, owing to the availability of jobs [...]
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Chapter 4
Nov 4, 2019 • 00:12:47
The old house we lived in was, I’ve been told, quite a dump when my parents bought it for the grand sum of $6500. (My [...]
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Chapter 5
Nov 4, 2019 • 00:14:16
Northern Wisconsin is a hotbed of people who are handy and good at crafts, and my parents were champs. I remember pulling over along a [...]
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Chapter 6 [Part Two | More Childhood, Adolescence; Rice Lake (1971-1981)]
Nov 4, 2019 • 00:11:54
My life pivoted when I was eight and we moved to the larger city of Rice Lake, 12 miles to the north. During the time [...]
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