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Hick town Competition

I come from a hick town we stare at the woman competition on A town of five thousand when I was a child the shoe factory pulled out so make that twenty-five hundred. that’s nothing Gladys says we kids rode cows to school through the field no paved roads everyone had corn fields, my town was twelve hundred. twelve hundred! That is a metropolitan center! My town had forty-two houses We were all related; only two hundred and forty-six of us in 1971. How many kids were in your graduating class? This query is from Lizzie, she is joining the fray. “Twenty-one,” the woman said proudly. “That’s huge!” Lizzie informed her. “There were eight in my class; six boys and two girls.” rural America one hick town socialite to another bragging rights for one as soon as we crown the winner

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