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By DEBORAH FLINCHUM
Rappahannock Newi Special Writer
Friday the thirteenth was not a bad luck day for second grader Billy Dodson. Billy and his parents Dixie and Clarence Dodson of Viewtown, explained a unanticipated sequence of events which began early Friday morning.
Mr. Dodson spotted a balloon floating in the yard as the family was getting ready for school and work. Billy began to watch it bounce across the yard- It floated low *t first but it did nqt get caught-in a fence - that ? t' *■ • ;Y‘ *4*>*•; if would have been too easy. It floated higher but it did not catch m the low trees. It continued to drift higher and higher until it lodged in the tallest trees around the Dodson residence.
The family went off to school and work. That afternoon the balloon was the first thing Billy thought of. It had waited for the family to re
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