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What we owe the places we grew up in
An essay about leaving, returning and the small towns that made us.
Many of us left small towns for big cities. We go back for weddings and funerals, and notice what has changed.
The town did not stop when we left. It got new roads, lost old trees and raised children who will also leave.
Perhaps what we owe it is attention: to visit when nothing is wrong, and to bring something back.
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