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When I returned to Big Sandy in 1978, I found a very different town from the one where I had grown up. The pool hall and the soda fountain where we used to order root beer floats after school were gone. The theater where my friends and I had watched To Kill a Mockingbird and shared ten-cent bags of popcorn had burned down, and it was never replaced.
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