**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

Not real blinders, of course, because that would be foolish. "Ever since Pa hit him in the head with the two-by-four, Earl had lived with blinders on. It was his own brain that blinkered him." EARL HAHN is slow, the last one to catch on to things. Since the day his father hit him in the head with a 2x4 of loblolly pine, he's struggled with a "thickness in his brain." It takes him longer to make the connections others arrive at easily.