Linda O'Neal, when the Oakland Raiders drafted the young fullback - ex-Stuttgart High School Ricebird - into the National Football League out in California. In the new millennium, Rock Island produced its first NFL football player, Oren O'Neal, third oldest son of six boys and no girls born to Mr.Lawerence Clifton O'Neal and Mrs. Things were changing in the new millennium: I felt kind of proud - no proud of myself - because, after a 30-year addiction, I quit smoking Salem cigarettes. Thirteen years and I ain't touched another cigarette since I smoked the last one in the pack I showed to Vickie that day on January 7, 1994. And then she left Sugar Town and me again this time going to The Windy City. I did not follow her that time, as even a fool's road has an end to it. She stayed in Stuttgart until after Ken's death in the car wreck at Lookout. But the love I had for her was stronger than my will. I had tried to be strong and not rip and run behind her. Louis, she left me again, going back to Stuttgart. But neither Selma nor God, it seemed, wanted us together, because, not long after arriving in St. Selma Roe was a dark-skinned, medium-height, nineteen-year-old girl back in 1967 with short black hair, as beautiful as "Black Beauty" the mare, and just as wild. Louis since July of 1968, but had come there in June of 1967, following my estranged girlfriend Selma Roe.
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Louis, Missouri, when a sudden urge to leave Missouri and come home to Arkansas overwhelmed me. I was lying on the couch in the upstairs-living room at Aunt Georgia and Uncle George Johnson Sr.'s redbrick two-story house on the corner of 4027 Kossue Avenue in St.
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Seven months had passed since the car wreck at Lookout, Arkansas back in 1968 the night Roland "Ping" Hill's 1962 Pontiac convertible left the highway, crashed into a soybean field, overturned, and left four passangeras - Verna "Ground Hog" Sims, Freddie Gene Green "So-Toe" Goodlow, Eugene "Gene" Settles and the driver, Roland "Ping" Hill - wounded and one, Kenneth Matthews "Ken" Sims, dead. 1969 was also the year our troops started home from that war in Vietnam the year Diana Ross left The Supremes to persue a solo career, leaving the group with one, last big hit: Januthe year man was to set foot on the moon, which would be a small historic step for Neil Alden Armstrong.