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Originally Posted by Section8
My wife recently read Stephen King's 11/22/63 (her first Stephen King book). She was born & grew up in Ft. Worth, TX, and has lived most of her life in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area - she has a childhood memory of seeing JFK in downtown Ft. Worth just before the assassination.
She had a lot of complaints about various details of King's portrayal of the Ft. Worth area. The only one I specifically remember is she thought it laughable when he talked about being able to smell oil fumes from the the west Texas oil wells in Ft. Worth (or maybe Dallas) when the wind was right. These wells are hundreds of miles from the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. She doesn't recall ever in her life smelling oil fumes from west Texas.
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My wife grew up in Texas. Mostly Houston, Dallas and Austin. I do remember the first time I drove into Lubbock. From 30 miles away I could smell the combination oil fumes and cow manure. Even with the wind blowing the right direction I doubt you could smell Lubbock from Ft. Worth.
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