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Grandpa

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Nov 17, 2024
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Grandpa, circa 1930

He had a way of picking a guitar that was honest, smacking the stings with the flat pick like they’d done something wrong. It was imperfect but authentic, broken but true, and I tried to copy it, working as hard to play the wrong notes as I did the right ones.

He always wore a hat, a short-brimmed fedora, wool in the winter, straw in t…

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