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My elementary school teacher, Mrs. Cotton,  plucked a gold star from the small cardboard box on her desk and handed it to me. As I licked the small paper prize, the bitter glue layer burned my [...]

  Church. My family and I regularly walked there on Sunday mornings in Ames, New York, no matter the weather. Marching in a line, the six of us navigated the irregular slabs of the village’s [...]