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hake passed the place Marine Corps documents listed as his official home of record. It wasn’t really. Cape Girardeau was merely the place he originally enlisted. He’d spent most of the early years in Sikeston or Benton which were both farther south toward the Missouri bootheel. Still, he’d decided to backtrack a bit before heading home and give Cape a quick look. Shake’s Dad had been a standout football player at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape back in the days when it was just a teacher’s college. That was worth a stop, he guessed. And once he scratched the itch that was driving him, he could just spin around heading for Arkansas, major highways and high speeds all the way back to Texas.
Sikeston had grown a good deal since he’d last seen it. Rolling into town he p
