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rownesheck

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3. I lived in that town.
Sun Jun 7, 2020, 10:19 AM
Jun 2020

We moved from there about 5 years ago. My wife's job was offering transfers and I told her to please take it if they offered one to her. So glad to get out of that whole southeast Texas area.

I was in high school there in the early to mid 90s and there was a fucking klan march down main street because President Clinton was trying to integrate the public housing project. I commented to my wife yesterday that in 28 years the town went from a klan march to a George Floyd peace march.

That town, and whole area out there still have a LONG way to go before being decent, but I guess it's a start.

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