"""Apparently he feels,"" you say, speculating that I wish to endear my family to the reader or make black people in Granville County seem folksy or stupid.  My family talks the way they talk and I don't give a goddamn how some idiot in Baltimore feels about them. 

 I would not speculate about the contents of your head, which do not impress me much thus far. 

 You slander me for your own purposes but saying so don't make it so.   

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