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Gordon Henderson
Gordon Henderson is an ordinary, likeable guy who lives in Kudzuville. He just wants to fit in and be accepted by his southern friends and neighbors in Kudzuville, but it isn't easy. He often feels ignored by others around him--as when he speaks up at a gathering of people and no one seems to hear him as if he isn't even there. Even his own wife Maude seems to not pay much attention to him at lot of the time. Gordon frequently feels left out and dejected, and his sensitivities frequently send him spiraling downward into deep bouts of melancholy and depression.
Gordon likes both hard work and solitude. He likes to spend a lot of time maintaining and fixing up his yard and his house. For all his efforts, he sometimes feels unappreciated, as when he puts in a full day's exhausting labor cutting grass, trimming bushes, painting, and hauling mulch, ony to have Maude find him collapsed on the bed and say, "So are you going to lie around all day or are you going to help me organize the basement?" Yet despite all his insecurities and perceived failings, Gordon has a finely tuned sense of himself with his own ideas and imagination, and he often will make the quick-witted or sarcastic observations to point out something he perceives as ridiculous.
Gordon has always liked snow, and is disappointed that it doesn't snow in the South. Yet, it does snow on occasion, and when this happens, it becomes an opportunity for him to exercise his imagination and build snowmen in all kinds of odd or wierd situations. He also has an affinity with Sherman, Kudzuville's resident blue armadillo, and the two of them often have long, philosophical conversations. On the human side, his best friend is Felix, a sort of resident philosopher and theologian with whom he goes fishing at Mudhole Lake just outside of town.
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