Word: verbonich
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...January, with just a little breeze (and a lot of money) coming across the threshold. Also that midnight is more brightly lit than midday back home, and that there is green grass, even if only in patches. "We have to wait nine months for green grass," says Jack Verbonich, who lives 30 miles outside Hibbing, in Makinen, Minn...
...that anyone has much time for foliage. Verbonich and his wife Linda spend most of the weekend contemplating fruit: the cherries, oranges, plums and lemons, plus elusive sevens, spinning behind the windows of their slot machines. Linda's hands work absently at the change bucket. She feeds the machine, lifts herself off the stool a bit to grasp the handle, and settles back with her weight on it, like a factory worker heaving open a start-up lever of a large turbine engine. Then, with the lights reflecting in her eyeglasses, she bounces up and down, patting the side...
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