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    Definition
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    Definition

    By Wayne Floyd

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    In Definition, Floyd asks what the world would be like if we took dictionary definitions REALLY seriously. This book represents the culmination of Floyd's lexicological thought while at Dude Ranch Rodeo College & Penal Camp.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherFloating Records Press
    Release dateMar 9, 2018
    ISBN9780578201993
    Definition
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    Wayne Floyd

    I was born in Cape Girardeau Mo. I grew p n cotton farm in a commur~ity of Walnut Grove Tenn. This was about six miles from Rutherford Ten es ee, where I graduated High School. My father worked as a blacksmith ar1d along with my mother ar1 o e brother tried to keep everythir~g going. I loved the community I grew up in where everyone ne everybody and sometimes this was bad thing because boys get ir1to trouble and everybody tells on au. Life was good all except picking cotton by hand and I learned dedication and hard work ethics ro my dad. I worked at our local hospital as an orderly to make spending money on weekends and gu ss that's where I got the desire to help people. Upon graduation ftom high school! volu tee ed for the army and even then wanted to be a paramedic. As fate would deal the cards I hurt my kn e nd was shipped home. Later I went to Memphis and worked in the operating room as a techni ia for a while then moved to Dyer Tennessee to work for Goodyear Tire And Rubber Co. in Union C ty ennessee for the next seven years. Still there was the desire to help people and after long hard ho ght I decided to leave. I had two children and a wife that had just finished nursing school and she ad job offer at a hospital in Paducah Ky. So off we went and after some fail business adventured and di orce I decided to go back to school and become a paramedic and full fill a lifelong dream.

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