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There is a small town on the edge of Northfield, Minnesota, called Dundas. When I was a student at St. Olaf College, the claim to fame for Dundas was that they had an Applebee’s. Going to Dundas meant a sort of tongue-and-cheek appeal to the fact that while Northfield was small, there was always Dundas, which was even smaller.
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Gloviczki, P.J. (2015). The Case of the “In Memorial: Virginia Tech” Facebook Group. In: Journalism and Memorialization in the Age of Social Media. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137460875_2
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