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Slipping on a Mossy Log
I knew the Ten Commandments and The Golden Rule before I could spell my name on Big Chief tablet paper. Not just memorized, but absorbed---like extra ribs in my chest. I was reminded of them whenever I saw others committing forbidden acts. I recalled friends who sneaked into the cloakroom at school to pop their bubble gum, and the filling station man who always told my Aunt Flossie she needed a quart of oil when she didn't. Flossie would just smile and say, "Thanks, I'm about to get it changed anyway." I figured her answer was sort of like turning the other cheek.
I think I did just fine with those Eternal Rules, honoring them to the fullest as the years went by. Yes, all was close to textbook until that one day at Caddo Lake.
I was eleven or maybe twelve. It was one of the summers I came back to East Texas---a short vacation from the harried pace of life overseas. Caddo Lake was my getaway. It was so different from the tropical forests of the Far East,......

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