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Bettie

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3. Our town has a volunteer fire department

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 05:11 PM

Sunday

need to tell my DH this, since he's now on the city council by accident.

No one was running in our precinct, so we wrote his name in.

We joked on the way back that if he could win with two votes, well, that would be funny.

Well, a bunch of people got two write-in votes so the city draws a name at that point. It was him. Go figure.

And we're not even "From here"...we moved here in early 2002, so only 23 years. Being "from here" means that your grandparents graduated from the high school. The family trees are kind of...circular in some cases.

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