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Remembering Junior Merritt

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Oct 11, 2023
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The news has been so horrible. Let me share with you as a starter today some small-town levity and charm.

This painting above hangs in the Oyster Bar, an excellent dive (renovated a few years ago) down where Bayou Sara meets the Mississippi River, in St. Francisville.

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