Protected: The McDonald’s Kid, part VII

March 1, 2006

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The McDonald’s Kid, part VI

January 27, 2006

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The weekend of the fourth of July I took a couple days off after the Monday holiday and drove up to Duluth on Saturday morning to visit Alan, an old friend. It felt like it had been a long time since I’d [...]

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Work in Progress: The McDonald’s Kid, part V

January 6, 2006

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After we got back from fishing and dropped the kids off on Friday night, Charlie and I cleaned up at home and went to the Lighthouse. When we got there it was about 10 o’ clock and the place was crowded and loud. I got [...]

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Work in Progress: The McDonalds Kids, part IV

December 30, 2005

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“Nope. I got trout on the brain. Let’s do it.”
“Talk to Miller.”
“You think Landry might want to go?”
“Doubt it, but you could ask him.”
Charlie was often like this when it came to trout. I knew that invariably he would catch more fish than me on Saturday and he [...]

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Work in Progress: The McDonald’s Kid, part III

December 16, 2005

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If the kids had seemed determined to catch a fish earlier, it was nothing compared to the vigor with which they flailed the waters now. As I watched them, I couldn’t help but remember when I’d started fishing. I thought of how I had fished with such violence, how it had [...]

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Work in Progress: The McDonald’s Kids, part II

December 9, 2005

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I hadn’t thought about the kids since Saturday night when I was sitting on Miller and Landry’s deck, full of steak and beer, and I’d thought how I was pretty fortunate. When we pulled into the McDonald’s parking lot I thought about them again. When we went in I looked around and saw them [...]

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