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Rednecks: A Short Story
That summer afternoon, as I remember it, was doubtlessly a commemorable one. Breezy, yet humid. Bright yet shadowed by the monsters that the afternoon sun cast upon all things animate and inanimate. Even though my generation belongs to one of technology, I will always be gratified to be able to claim that my youth was still filled with sweaty foreheads and rusty old bikes. I was only twelve when my great adventure took place. Keelan and Matthew Daniel, known to many as the definition of rednecks, or to me as trouble, were honestly my best and only friends in our quaint neighborhood. The occasional tag along was a petite blonde girl named Kinley who went to a different school than us three, leaving her living situation the only thing we all
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