You Can Tell Where a Man Was Raised by the Way He Says It

I grew up hearing things that did not make a lick of sense until I got older and realized they made perfect sense.In the South, nobody ever just said you were not thinking clearly. They said, “That boy ain’t right.” They said it soft, sometimes with a little head tilt, like they were diagnosing engine trouble. If things were real bad, you might hear, “Bless his heart,” which ev...

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