Audiobook Southern US 3rd person
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (South West - Texas)Transcript
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Ronnie paul jessup was born with an extra finger on each hand. His brothers and father used to say that Ronnie paul born with twice as many fingers, but does have to work with us being people who worked the rocky Hollows plowing and planting, but mainly moving rocks and stumps. They saw no rhyme or reason for anything impractical. They were poor people, and life was hard down Millsap way, a carnival was coming to town. The poster in the store window advertised, a bearded lady would be on display and others such wonders. Ronnie paul got it in his mind that his extra fingers might finally be of use to his family and he might be able to bring some much needed money into the home. His father and brothers could rest on a Sunday and drink coffee every so often. They would occasionally look over at the poster on the wall near the sink and read Ronnie Paul Jessup, the boy with 12 fingers. He walked down the long steep trail into town and met with a heavyset man with kindly eyes who ran the carnival. The man examined Ronnie paul's hands slowly and carefully turning each of them over like delicate leaves. Then he put his hand on the boy's shoulder and said, son, it's not that unusual to see extra fingers on the boy's hands in these parts, lad down *****, fill away has an extra leg, only it don't work so well. Thanks for stopping by. Ronnie paul walked back up the long, steep trail back home, but not before he had a cotton candy which made his finger sticky.