Even Jaybird, my boyhood best friend and mentor, didn’t know how Moon and Doll got their names. Moon, I could halfway understand. Like that nocturnal orb, his face was round and shiny. But Doll was anything but a doll. He was so huge that his wife had to hand-sew coveralls to clothe his oxen obesity.
Whatever work we were doing on Dad’s Mississippi Delta farm, the two men never stopped competing with each other — a good thing, I thought.