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Our Best Days Are Behind Us

Plains Folk by Prairie Public Broadcasting

Oct 3, 20264:37Government & Organizations

You can’t go home again, Thomas Wolfe said, but I do, and I do so without discomfort. Although I get a little tired of replaying the buzzer-beater in the state semifinals of 1970, because that was a long time ago and a l...

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