The story didn't end with Wilkie getting well and all that. The next winter on a particularly cold night old Dr. Biltwright called Wilkie up. Now I don't know if I told y'all but Wilkie was real good at plumbing too. And Dr. Biltwright had a plumbing problem. They was out at his house on the river and it had only one bathroom and the water closet was real stopped up. They was out there because they had just had their house painted and Mrs. Dr. Biltwright couldn't abide the smell of the new paint. Well, Wilkie told him--don't y'all get ahead of me now--just to drops a couple of aspirin in it and call him in the morning if it wasn't unstopped by then. People tell me they read that same story in Reader's Digest. Well I did too. But I read it several years after it happened to Wilkie. I'll tell a little more about Wilkie and Betty Faye Whitmire tomorrow.
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