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Small Town Views

I made a comment a while back that it turns out I need to clarify. I said that when I went off to college in the Big City, I didn’t know how to use an elevator, and apparently created a vision of a youth spent among cargo cults or the Amish. “We went into aContinue reading “Small Town Views”

Posted byannmariegambleMarch 9, 2010March 22, 2010Posted inPlay, Travel5 Comments on Small Town Views

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