Lets Read
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7,275 appearances
8 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Sep
Lets Read’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We learned hunting safety as early as elementary school and how you never went out into the woods during hunting season without blazing orange somewhere on your uppers.
And we were also raised to have respect for the men who put their bodies on the line to feed their families and neighbors, because Lord knows, you get a heck of a lot of meat out of a full-grown deer.
And so when two hunters from around Bellington went missing back when I was 12, I remember it being a really big deal.
My dad joined one of the search parties then went out looking for the two missing men, who turned out to be two regular hunting partners named Moe and Larry.
Now, they used to get called the two stooges on account of them lacking a curly, but no one made that joke after they disappeared.
And after that, it was just poor Moe and Larry or those missing hunters.
Working with local cops, men from all over Barber County mounted three different search attempts, each one combing over the wooded hills near a place called Stringtown.
Now, not a single trace of either hunter was ever found.
We used to pray for them every Sunday in church, pray that they'd return home and safe and sound one day having come back from wherever they were.
But after a while, folks started to accept the cold hard truth that both Mo and Larry were probably dead.
As a kid, I remember finding it all very confusing.
There was no sign of what you might call foul play, which gave folks a lot of hope.
And then when the searchers didn't find any bodies, people started talking like Moe and Larry were just on vacation or decided to leave town for some reason.
Now, I remember why they'd do something like that, just up and leave town without telling anybody.
And there were all kinds of rumors, too, just nothing anybody talked about in public and nothing that fit, neither.
But then one day, there was suddenly a little memorial outside the church, and I saw Moe and Larry's families, all dressed in black, on two consecutive weekends.
One day they were just off someplace, then the next, they were gone for good.
This was many years after they went missing and I later learned that Moe and Larry's families decided to declare them dead in absentee for legal and financial reasons.
But doing that meant giving up on them and accepting that they were gone.
And then when the town finally accepted that Moe and Larry were really dead and not just missing, it was like this whole second wave of grief that I remember much clearer on account of being older.
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