“Poor mountaineer, barely kept his family fed. And then one day he was shooting at some food when up from the ground came a bubbling crude. Oil, that is. Black Gold. Texas Tea…”
When I met my love seven years ago he told me his parents’ county was the only one in Texas without oil. Now they want to build a lake to fill the water needs of Dallas by flooding the family farm, and guess what they found.
Black gold, Texas tea. Imagine that. We’ll keep in touch with the folks back home to see what happens next. No child of ours will be named Jed, nor will the next dog. So give it up already. Dee
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