Correction: A previous version of this article mistakenly referred to K.C. Saunders as the County Administrator. He is, in fact, the Budget Director for Lorain County. The correction applies to Part 3, paragraph 3; Part 4, paragraph 1 & 4; and Part 5, paragraph 4 of the published story.
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sometimes i wonder how many versions of myself i’ve outgrown without even noticing. i look back at old photos and remember the thoughts i used to carry, the dreams i thought would save me. it’s strange how you can live inside yourself every day and still not realize you’re evolving. it’s only when you look back that you realize how far you’ve come, how many lives you’ve already lived in the same skin.
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Really well written TC. Your books and comments here, consolidated, would make a fascinating history of the US. Might even be a textbook.
I have learned more history from TC than from my high school or college history classes. There was never enough time to cover things properly. If history had been told in narrative form accompanied by a timeline, I think students would have had a better understanding of our country’s history even with all the whitewashing and failure to disclose things such as the Wilmington, NC coup in 1898. I only learned such atrocious, appalling history as an adult. I grew up 100 miles from Wilmington.
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When I'm writing, I like to play music of the period, you can learn a lot by what people were listening to and when. This collection below has a lot of English "music hall" songs from World War II. You can go from the enthusiasm of the early period before the attack in the west in May 1940, with the rousing "We're going to hang our laundry on the Sigfried Line" (the German equivalent of the Maginot Line) and Gracie Fields' "Wish Me Luck," to the bitter feeling of a soldier with George Formby's …
a quick correction: "The Last Time I Saw Paris" was Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II (the "Showboat" team), and you're entirely correct about the occasion. for myself, I'd thought it was Cole Porter.
