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While we eat, we talk about Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer. I ask him how Mark Twain got away with spelling the word sivilized when that is not the correct spelling. He says that is what you call poetic license. Well if they required a license to misspell here, I expect half the state of Mississippi would be in jail.

"Sometimes I feel old. Old in my skin and my bones. I remember when I turned nine at my mama’s house, I could still feel a little eight left in me. But when I turned ten in this place, there was not any nine left to spare. Now I am afraid I might already have used up the rest of my eleven and most my twelve too."