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Essays from West of 98
There’s an episode of the great sitcom Parks and Recreation called “Born and Raised.” In that episode, the champion of Pawnee, Indiana, Leslie Knope, discovers a disturbing fact: she wasn’t actually born in Pawnee. Even worse, she was born in the hideous neighboring town of Eagleton. Now, this is really something of a technicality. Her parents lived in Pawnee and she has lived there her...