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ONE day when we were all sitting in the barn door, resting and talking, my grandfather sat gazing out a while in silence, and then he pointed to a far corner of the lot and said: "When I'm dead, Nick, I want you to bury me there."
And Nick laughed and said, "Boss, you got to go farther away from here than that."