That's fine, that's fine. I'm not hardcore one way or the other. I don't know what I am. Can't say I know for certain much of anything cept there's no aliens here and Freddy Duke is a drunk. Did he tell you he still drinks? Probably he was drunk when you talked to him.
That son of a floozy grew up just like we all knew he would. He had it all in high school just like his mom did. Nobody knows who his dad was, hell JoAnn Duke probably don't know. It's not just me. The more people you ask the more you'll see.
I took her to prom back in 1992. That was my senior year and she was a sophomore. Damn.
I've not thought of that in a long, long time. She looked so dang pretty, let me tell you. Outside of the day I married my wife, I never seen someone so pretty. Jo had her dark hair all curly, a peach dress that come off the one shoulder like this.
She probably weighed more then, have you seen her now? She don't look healthy. She is a fierce twig of a woman now, but that's what a life like that will do.
I had a crush on her before then and I told myself that if she went with me to the dance that I'd ask her to be my girlfriend. So pretty, man. She could've had a different life, you know?
It's funny how people get themselves down in the dumps about where they're at or better yet, where they ain't. I mean sure her story sounds sad and all, single mom her junior year and a dropout the year after. But she never really tried after she got knocked up with that little curse. She just kept drinking and laying down with anybody. Don't sound like someone that really wants to change themself.
I feel responsible a little. No, no. I never slept with her. I wanted to till she run out on me that night at prom. She said she was going to the bathroom, but she ducked out with RJ Lawler. There's a scumbag you ought to talk to. RJ Lawler, I think he's on his fifth wife now. Forget him though, I'm telling a story. But I think what if? Maybe I'd not have my wife now, maybe I'd a never married Jo, maybe all she needed was me at that point and she chose different.
Twenty plus years man and still I think about this, her. That's got to mean something.
But no, there's no aliens here. Freddy Duke is a drunkard and a killer. He's no damn orator. The only things he sees he needs whiskey to see. And that's all I need to tell you.
