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Apologies

Apologies

Ursula’s a born-again Christian and has those insufferable beliefs. But why wouldn’t she? The Christian right has aggressively courted her and we don’t even talk to her…

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The Revival

The Revival

The Harley Davidson Revival represents America at one of its finest hours, 1969, Neil Armstrong, Civil Rights, color TVs in walnut cabinets, shag carpeting.

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Ursula

Ursula

Ursula, a thrice divorced born-again Christian who rides a Harley and has a prosthetic leg.

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City of Lights

City of Lights

Jayde was a victim of sex trafficking by men in the Marine Corps and unable to escape. Her mother hadn’t believed her.

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Laney’s

Laney’s

In Leeds, not too far from Birmingham, Vicky owns a café called Laney’s. Her daughters, Sharon and Laney, do the managing and cooking, Sharon’s daughter, Lillian, makes the biscuits. Hot and buttery and crispy brown on the outside, served with pepper gravy, those biscuits are so worth the sore butt of getting there.

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Jim’s Cafe

Jim’s Cafe

In front of Jim’s Café, I sat on the bench next to Ronald Lee Anderson and we got to talking. He told me about places he’d lived and jobs he’d had and how he supported the SCOTUS decision on Roe.

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Somebody Had to Go to Jail

Somebody Had to Go to Jail

Arthur Lee Brown did a 12-year stretch for a piece of bad luck; one guy had a gun, another guy died and somebody had to go to jail.

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She Started to Cry

She Started to Cry

Ashley was raped when she was fifteen by someone she knew and that having the baby had been a choice, her god damned choice.

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Ashtrays on the Tables

Ashtrays on the Tables

I sat at the next table and eavesdropped on Sandy’s conversation with the two guys she was sitting with, one wearing an Army veteran cap, as they smoked their cigarettes and ate their grits and bacon.

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Ambassador

Ambassador

My intention is to listen to people whose politics I disagree with, to encourage them to have their say. The Harley Davidson provides entrée, it makes me a non-threatening ambassador.

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