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Pictured from left to right are (front) Chris Rider and Timmy “Possum” Fontenot and (back) Ben Smith and Mike Berzas before they begin fishing in the dogfight tournament on Tuesday, June 8, at Chicot Park. (Gazette photo by Tony Marks)
When Timmy Fontenot was in third grade, he was given the nickname “Possum.”
“I think it was from a fight, and then I got up to go jump on the guy who was beating up on me,” he said. “The other kids said I was playing possum. I think that’s what it was, or I was sneaky like one.”
He continued, “There are two different versions from one of my best friends, Bucky Penn, and another good friend,…
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