Garden & Gun

A Matter of Inches

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The eminent freestyle rapper-dancer Megan Thee Stallion and I are different in many ways. She is from Texas, I am from Georgia. Her middle name is Thee, whereas my middle initial is A. (For Alton.) She has a song out called “Sweetest Pie,” which includes the line “Toes curling like they’re throwing gang signs.” I have a book out called, which I doubt includes any line as provocative as that. And she can do things with

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