Hillbilly Elegy
102 until I crossed the state line. I made the thirteen-hour trip in just under eleven hours. When I arrived at Middletown Regio ...
opposite: Her white blood cell count continued to rise, and some of her organs showed evidence of severe stress. Her doctor expl ...
The doctor told us that without the ventilator Mamaw would die within fifteen minutes, an hour at most. She lasted instead for t ...
known.” A few minutes later, she was dead. I didn’t cry when Mamaw died, and I didn’t cry for days thereafter. Aunt Wee and Lind ...
and disburse what remained. For the first time, Uncle Jimmy learned Mom’s true financial impact on Mamaw—the drug rehab charges, ...
had died in 2008, Mamaw’s estate likely would have been bankrupt. In her will, Mamaw divided what remained between her three kid ...
visitation in Middletown so that all of her friends from Ohio could gather and pay their respects. Like Papaw, she wanted a seco ...
relatively flat plot of land that serves as the final resting place for Papaw and Mamaw Blanton and a host of relatives, some bo ...
a series of fond memories about Mamaw and Papaw and Uncle Red and Teaberry and that time Uncle David drove off the side of the m ...
endured, never complaining, a parade of father figures, all of whom left me feeling empty and mistrustful of men. I had agreed t ...
was our mom, too.” That said it all, so I continued to sit in silence. The day after the funeral, I drove back to North Carolina ...
event, and though I’m sure some law of friction can explain what happened, I imagined that Mamaw had stopped the car from toppli ...
moment in time in Iraq, where I was lucky to escape any real fighting but which affected me deeply nonetheless. As a public affa ...
while the rest of us provided security or hung out with the schoolkids, playing soccer and passing out candy and school supplies ...
moment, with that boy, was pretty close for me. For my entire life, I’d harbored resentment at the world. I was mad at my mother ...
family that, for all its quirks, loved me unconditionally. At that moment, I resolved to be the type of man who would smile when ...
folks. It assumes that no one taught you anything about physical fitness, personal hygiene, or personal finances. I took mandato ...
the civilian world, your boss wasn’t able to control your life after you left work. In the Marines, my boss didn’t just make sur ...
banks? I thought they were all the same. Shop around for a loan? I felt so lucky to even get a loan that I was ready to pull the ...
where I first ordered grown men to do a job and watched them listen; where I learned that leadership depended far more on earnin ...
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