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place so poor that a man with a toothache might have to anaesthetize his mouth with ice cold water and then rip out his own tooth with a pair of pliers.
But it was also a place where people could take pride in their ability to talk the pain out of a burned arm, to cure a crawbound rooster, to plow a field straight, or to know a mule’s age just by looking at his teeth.
Crews tells all this in a brilliantly matter of fact way that compels us to understand how poverty and the need to survive drive people to behave in ways that seem bizarre to those of us w ho are more fortunate.
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