A Pair of Loafers

Excerpt from BE A MAN: Raised in the Shadow of Cowboys

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BE A MAN

I’m ten years old, standing in the doorway of a small trailer. It’s just a few months before I watched my father sew the hide onto that calf. Ten wooden desks line the narrow room, in two neat rows, facing a teacher’s desk and a chalkboard. Eight kids circle me, i…