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    6 months ago

    “1791 was the year it happened. I was 24, younger than you are now, but times were different then. I was a man at that age: the master of a large plantation just south of New Orleans.”

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        6 months ago

        Could a reply be any more perfect?!

        Louis: Hot as balls, forever young, immortal, never grow sick, never die, best friend is a literal rock star, has to eat a poodle now and again.

        “Woe is me!”

        I’m in the woods and swamps a lot. Always think of this line:

        “Then on a diet of the blood of snakes, toads, and all the putrid life of the Mississippi…”