Tag: Trailer Parks
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Eyelid All Red, Better Head Back to Bed
Growing up in the South means growing up with a lot of, uhhm, well, I guess you’d call them superstitions or wives tales. If you have a sore white bump on your tongue, well, that’s a lie bump, caused by telling fibs. Freckles are where the angels kissed you (although why the angels felt it…
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Reality TV Time: To the (Myrtle) Manor Born
I grew up in trailer parks. Made friends at fine “semi-permanent establishments” in Arkansas, ran wild in “land lease communities” in Missouri, gotten in fist fights in “mobile communities” all over Texas. But none of those temporal estates were as nice as the five-star Myrtle Manor on TLC’s seminal ode to the cheapest form of…
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So When Are You Two Kids Getting Married?
I am such a cliché. That was my first thought when I heard about the Census Bureau report on marriage and divorce rates, breaking the data down by region. It’s like the Census Bureau only looked at one Census form – mine – and was able to write a whole report on marriage trends. “The…