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Y’all gotta start letting a few things slide

Y’all gotta start letting a few things slide

Way back in the early 1980s — long before a football player ever knelt for the National Anthem, back when no one carried AR-15s into the store to get milk and when wearing a mask into the liquor store was more likely to get you arrested than a “thank you” — a wise soul gave me some sage advice that sticks with me today: “You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of life, the facts of life.” I can’t remember exactly who told me that, but the word Tootie […]