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Anyway, I told him that other groups held raffles all the time and it was highly unlikely that the club would be prosecuted. LBJ had won the election by then, and I enjoyed arguing politics with Tom’s father. One day I was mowing grass down there and discovered it had become a nesting place not for martins but for bumblebees. For a few hours, we were innocent again, totally caught up in the contest.

Late at night on Highway 60 outside of Sikeston, Missouri, he lost control of his car, a 1942 Buick, when the right front tire blew out on a wet road. Just when things were working out on the surface of his life, whatever was going on inside compelled him to end it. The police were called. When he gave the invitation for people to come down onto the football field to become Christians or to rededicate their l