Needful Things

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Ladies and gentlemen, attention, please!

Come in close where everyone can see!

I got a tale to tell, it isn’t gonna cost a dime!

(And if you believe that, we’re gonna get along just fine.)

Steve Earle

“Snake Oil” I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is…

Henry David Thoreau Walden

YOU’VE BEEN HERE BEFORE.

Sure you have. Sure. I never forget a face.

Come on over here, let me shake your hand! Tell you something: I recognized you by the way you walk even before I saw your face good.

You couldn’t have picked a better day to come back to Castle Rock.

Ain’t she a corker? Hunting season will be starting up soon, fools out in the woods bangin away at anything that moves and don’t wear blaze orange, and then comes the snow and sleet, but all that’s for later.

Right now it’s October, and in The Rock we let October stay just as long as she wants to.

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