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Taken from Dave Curry: How Atheists Sing in Church by Janet Bonham Curry:
As many of you surviving spouses may know, the first few times we are called upon to tell our loved one's story, without him or her around, it is not easy. Among the most completely bizarre and entirely fitting truths about David Curry is that he wrote by far and away the best account of his own life while already years—deep into the multiple afflictions that finally took his life this April. The story I want to tell here though starts with a story his father, Minter Glen Curry, told by David, from the beginning.
By the time I met David in Chicago in 1985, he had survived early childhood in the town of Kimball, McDowell County, aka the Free State of McDowell, in West Virginia, where his dad and grandfather were coal miners. In the terms of this region, 66 years old is long-lived. Kimball is northeast of Coalwood, where Homer Hickam, the nonfictional rocket boy of October Sky was born, 5 years before David.... Read More Also In This Issue:
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