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The Swamp Rabbit Blues
I was talking to a friend the other day about my “U.S. Culture since 1970” class. “Yep,” I said, “today’s the day I talk about that time Jimmy Carter was out fishing in a boat and got attacked by a rabid rabbit.”
“What?!” my friend said. (He is a couple of decades younger than me.)
“Yeah,” I said. “The rabbit came swimming towards the boat, and I think the Secret Service had to beat it to death with an oar or something.”
That’s how I remembered it, anyhow. The real story is much less exciting and much more sad.
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