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    Florida

    By Emil Metallic

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    A small boy visits a ramshackle dairy farm with his grandfather and two older brothers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmil Metallic
    Release dateJun 3, 2022
    ISBN9781005639273
    Florida
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    Emil Metallic

    Emil Metallic writes stories based on people and places he knows or has known. Names are changed to protect the author.

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      Florida - Emil Metallic

      Florida

      By Emil Metallic

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      When I was a little boy my two older brothers and I, that’s Eddie who was six and Gene who was seven, rode along with our grandfather to buy fresh milk and eggs from a farm on some Saturday mornings, always in the winter. I don’t know why we only went in winter. I expect our mother just wanted to get us out of the house for a while and in the summer it wasn’t a problem. Maybe we went in the summer too, and I just don’t remember. It was a long time ago.

      The farmhouse and barn sat at the intersection of two county roads about fifteen miles out of the town. Cattycornered across the intersection from the farm was an old general store with a couple of gas pumps in front of it. Grandpa always gassed up there before we went to the farm. He’d get

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