And aside from the possibility of the late Jimmy Hoffa, there are no dead bodies within a few football fields distance of the venue.

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Less so, the dead fields of Arkansas, the dried-up rivers of Illinois, or the burned out pastures of Oklahoma.

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For days, then weeks, there were long, parched fields and stretches of marshland clogged with the dead.

NEWYORKER: The Tiger��s Wife

"Get in here, " a good-natured waitress at Elysian Fields tells Hushpuppy who, in the midst of everything else, has been searching for her dead mother.

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