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Updated: May 24, 2025

He was one to whom might be told, without shame, fear, or compunction, the plain, blunt, terrible truth. He understood. "I wish you'd look up Petronovich's boy, father," he might tell me, or, "Madame, have a woman-talk with Lovena Smith's girl at the mills, will you? Lovena's a fool, and that girl's up against things."

Marie Conway Oemler - Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man