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What are the chances of a story about a childhood memory of growing up in Lamesa getting into a publication?Apparently, pretty good.Former resident and retiree Bill Norris, 88, submitted his story, entitled “ Tobacco Chewing Goat,” for the Fall 2024 Methodist Community Retirement (MCR) company’s magazine.His story about Red the tobacco chewing goat was published among a dozen other retirees’ childhood recollections about living with siblings, a two-yearold’s unaccompanied adventure, a paperboy’s donut temptation and pranks on an unsuspecting little brother and a boyfriend who dumped a 12-year-old girl.Norris said he wrote the article about his memory of Old Red ...

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Lamesa Press-Reporter

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Lamesa, TX 79331
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