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Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields, graduating just as the Great Depression began. When Homer asked for her hand, Elsie instead headed to Orlando where she sparked with a dancing actor named Buddy Ebsen (yes, that Buddy Ebsen). But when Buddy headed for New York, Elsie's dreams of a life with him were crushed and eventually she found herself back in the coalfields,...
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Elsie Lavender and Homer Hickam (the father of the author) were high school classmates in the West Virginia coalfields. When Homer asked her to marry him, she left and had a fling in Florida, but later returned and the couple were married. Albert was Elsie's pet alligator, but he did not fit into the couple's new life and had to be returned to Florida.
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