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I live in a small town. There’s no skyscrapers and the city limits are not vast. We have one gas station, and three family-owned restaurants. A bank, a pharmacy, one grocery store, and one school: kindergarten through twelfth grade. There’s one stop light, and too many churches to count. We bow our heads before we eat, and drink sweet tea with every meal. Your neighbors know your business, along with everyone else in the town. And around here, your mama is always your biggest fan. We say yes ma’am and no sir, and we’ll always hold the door. Friday nights revolve around high school football. And, during the summer we pick freshly grown strawberries and spend our days out on the river. We prefer back roads to paved ones, especially when it rains. And around here, if you have a clean truck, you’re probably not from around these parts. To some people it may not seem like much, probably just a stop in the road on the way to somewhere better, but to us…it’s home.