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Eagle Keeper: Go, Go, White Lightning

Posted by DFO

May 4, 2009 6:02 a.m. • 3 comments

Eagle Keeper44: Raised in the Carolina’s . My uncle Bill was a Moonshiner and made some really GOOD white lightning. Dad would keep a Jug in the cellar hidden, or so he thought. I would “borrow” some and add water to replace what I took. Developed a taste for it and sippin whiskey too. Yes, as a teenager nothing ever could happen to me. Drove drunk as a skunk an sometimes barely made it home. There but for the grace of GOD go I …

Question: Do you have any outlaws in your family tree?

Three comments on this post so far. Add yours!

tarynahecker on May 04 at 11:42 a.m.
More outlaws than inlaws.
moscow_minidoka on May 04 at 12:04 p.m.
Yes, but I’m not gonna dish it HERE. ;)

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