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question everything

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Tue Jun 16, 2020, 08:54 PM Jun 2020

Meanwhile, in Savannah

I am reading a mystery book that takes place in Savannah. Iced Chiffon by Duffy Brown. Written in 2012.

She has a nice, easy style and is pouring the Southern charm quite heavily.

And then I read this sentence: "I started up Drayton alongside Forsyth Park, which was brimming with flowers, blooming trees, joggers, walkers and the Confederate Monument, with soldier Archibald McLeish atop, facing north to the enemy. In Savannah, some things are never forgotten."

And I thought uh uh..






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Meanwhile, in Savannah (Original Post) question everything Jun 2020 OP
we will make them forget Skittles Jun 2020 #1
Younger folks don't realize the timeframe SCantiGOP Jun 2020 #2

SCantiGOP

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2. Younger folks don't realize the timeframe
Tue Jun 16, 2020, 11:08 PM
Jun 2020

I’m 70, and my Grandfather was born in 1899. He told me stories of him sitting around listening to Confederate soldiers talk about the war when he was growing up in Tennessee. Some of them were 70 when he was 15.

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