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title: The Luckiest Day
date: 2010-08-28T18:00:45Z
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> “_Me and my wife been married thirty-one years. No children. We lost a girl but I wont talk about that. I served two terms and then we moved to Denton Texas. Jack used to say that bein sheriff was one of the best jobs you could have and bein a ex-sheriff one of the worst. Maybe lots of things is like that. We stayed gone and stayed gone. I done different things. Was a detective on the railroad for a while. By that time my wife wasnt all that sure about us coming back here. About me runnin. But she seen I wanted to so that’s what we done. She’s a better person than me, which I will admit to anyone that cares to listen. Not that that’s sayin a whole lot. She’s a better person than anybody I know. Period._
> 
> People think they know what they want but they generally dont. Sometimes if they’re lucky they’ll get it anyways. Me I was always lucky. My whole life. I wouldnt be here otherwise. Scrapes I been in. But the day I seen her come out of Kerr’s Mercantile and cross the street and she passed me and I tipped my hat to her and got just almost a smile back, that was the luckiest.
> 
> People complain about the bad things that happen to em that they dont deserve but they seldom mention the good. About what they done to deserve them things. I dont recall that I ever give the good Lord all that much cause to smile on me. But he did.”
> – _Cormac McCarthy_

I just got married.