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...fortunate. "That's my house over there," he says, pointing to a blue roof just above the waterline. "I left my house in the 1973 flood, and they stole everything I had. There's no way I'm leaving this time." So he sits on Walter's second-story porch, just 1 ft. above the Mississippi, and watches debris from Minnesota and Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois float by. "If it looks interesting, I'll grab it," he says...
...talkin' to you in your room. You've just been around too many people in jail.' I would sit in the cool of the evenin' with him and he'd say, 'I don't like to be around all those people!' " He would then sit on the back porch all night, rocking and pouring water over his head, talking to himself...
...feminist role model she isn't. Pinning any feminist hopes on a First Lady is a mistake. The Quarterly's poem may declare Hillary a statue of liberty ("she lifts her torch/to all women: "Don't just sit on the porch--"), but she is hardly a NOW poster child...
...formed in a virtually cloudless sky. Video cameras whir, and Polaroids spit out pictures. People whisper about the experience they have just shared. The announcer declares, "The Virgin Mary will now bless us." Arms extend portraits of Jesus, crucifixes and other % icons for blessing. Then Fowler steps onto the porch to relay Mary's words: "Pray and sacrifice, please...
...then there is the central fact that Roger did not have simply an older brother; he had a perfect older brother. "Everyone was excited when Bill would come home," says Roger's childhood friend Will Schubert. "We would just sit on the front porch waiting for him to drive up in his Mustang." Schubert is one of three close friends who describe how, early on, Roger internalized a sense of deficiency in relation to his brother and a need for approval from him. "When we'd get in trouble doing stupid things, he would punish himself so much because...