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Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter Tomato
The name he went by was Charlie or just plain MC and “he’d get mad if anybody said it is Marshall Cletis Byles,” his grandson said. Charlie was a hardworking man with no formal education. “Well, I’ve always had a … Continue reading
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