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Vincent Tolve

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Boxcar

Submitted to Contest #239

BOXCAR     I was born in a boxcar, an Illinois Central 40-footer, number 32576, as it rolled down the IC’s mainline somewhere between Memphis, Tennessee and Greenville, Mississippi on the fourth day of August in the year 1963. My momma told me all about that trip and was very specific about the car number explaining to me, “I wrote it down because a person needs to know the place of his beginning and that number was as close as I could get to it.” My daddy was with her but not for long. He jumped out of the ca...

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