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Bethany Sanders's avatar

Love this: "Astonishment is a gift, but it’s not where life happens. Life happens in cow pastures, in hallways, in lunchrooms—where everything feels just as dime-a-dozen as a table of teenage vampires." So true!

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Elizabeth Harwell's avatar

Thanks, Bethany! Do you have any dime-a-dozen wonders to share about your hometown?

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Bethany Sanders's avatar

One of my home city's distinguishing feature seems to be that we have the biggest squirrels you'll ever see. (Everyone comments on this, from Ukrainians to Kenyans to Mexicans to Americans from other states). XD

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Elizabeth Harwell's avatar

That is amazing. So do other people’s squirrels seem especially small to you?

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Bethany Sanders's avatar

Yes, other squirrels seem petite to me!

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Reagan Dregge's avatar

I am still bowled over by the place you walked about in as one at home.

Across from the Southwest Baseball Diamonds where ALL six of my younger siblings played little league, a new strip mall sprang up which included a 14-screen cinema and a Russo's Books that my folks would let me browse at during many a double-header. I'm not saying whether I did, but only that it was possible to read whole books at the shop without paying a cent. I still own the complete paperback spin-off series of Dinotopia Adventures which I did pay for. Across from Russo's was a piano studio. Around the corner was a Thomas Kincade gallery.

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Elizabeth Harwell's avatar

It’s like they built it there just for you!

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Joshua Caleb Hutchens's avatar

This made me smile...and glad that I'm from Marshall County, which was a vampire-free zone.

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Elizabeth Harwell's avatar

I’m so glad you liked it, Josh! And I’m glad you were spared from the Creatures of the Night-- did you know you lived on such an edge of danger?

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Joshua Caleb Hutchens's avatar

Of course, we knew. It was all WPSD talked about for 3 years! But we were thankful to be half a mile safely over the county line.

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