I have lived almost my whole life in the greater St. Louis area, apart from the five years that I went to college in Springfield, some three to four hours away (dependent on how respectful one is of the traffic laws governing I-44) but still within the arbitrary limits of what we call the “state” of Missouri. Like most American descendants of European s…
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