Rig pigs are welders that drive souped up pick-up trucks with all their gear in the back and they spend weeks at sites welding. […] […] You should know that. You're from Alberta!

Tapacolos are stocky birds 4½ to 10 inches ( 11 - 25 cm ) long with short rounded wings and powerful legs and feet.

To be disowned publicly is to be cut off from this, to be placed in a limbo of homelessness, clanlessness, to become nothing.

A hacky cough. A hacky laugh. A hacky breath. A hacky howl.