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麦克怀念自己背后的祖母

Source:  Onion  2009-03-02  我要投稿   恒星英语学习论坛   Favorite  


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Welcome to this storycorps podcast, in this episode, Mike Kilgore talks about his grandmother.

Her full name was Sara Louisa Matilda  Elizabeth Nowles, I think she was named after all her grandmothers, and probably a few other people.

Kilgore spent much of his childhood at his grandmother's house in rural Alabama. Here he remembers an incident that involved with his grandmother, and a wild flower called rabbit tobacco ,which is sometimes smoked like a cigarette.

I remembered one night I went to my grandmother's, and cousin Jimmy was staying with me, and we were doing the things boys would do. We decided we would smoke the rabbit tobacco. Then we rolled up it in newspaper, and we sat right there, and we were,you know, not even inhaling it, but we thought we were big shots(大人物).

But anyway, I saw the pickup lights coming up the hill, and I knew it was daddy com