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James Lockhart Perry was a Texan born on Valentine's Day in 1892 into the wilds and woolies of East Texas. Daddy Jim, as he came to be known, never worked the oilfields that erupted all around and became so potent a symbol of the crude, brash, lawless state the rest of us recognize. Instead, he patiently farmed the rice fields, married the fine-looking Missouri-bred schoolteacher Dora Mae, and built a beautiful yellow house in the tiny hamlet of Markham for his three lovely daughters Adrienne Lavonne, Audrey Louvelle, and Anita Lorraine. He also built a legend in his lifetime for tireless inner strength and placid outer humility.

So the author's use of Daddy Jim's name for a pseudonym serves as homage as much as anything to the towering gen
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23 United States

It seems odd that we only show 21 United States here, considering that our Countries post included 33 nations--surely we know our own homeland better than that. But then, these are only the States we've visited and photographed together.
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The Messenger

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