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“Whatever your father feels or doesn’t feel about you, Melvin, has nothing to do with you,” said Jamison firmly. “It’s his issue, not yours.” Melvin’s already lost twenty years of his life. I don’t want him to waste another second over a lost cause.” “ … From the forties to the sixties and on. Riots, lynchings, shootings, things blown or burned up. Folks murdered. Federal marshals all over the place. The National Guard. Coloreds”— “ … And in Mississippi, football rests only one rung below going to church as a state pastime.” … but face it, this is a podunk town. “It is my problem, because I chose to make it mine.” Eastland’s plane had gotten bigger now that he dealt more with cyber than guns. The manufacturing costs were a lot lower and the ability to gouge Uncle Sam under a trillion bytes of bullshit was even higher.