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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Having grown up in small town North Carolina, I found it moving to see what that was like 2 decades before I was born.\u00a0 This was during the Great Depression when my parents were coming of age.\u00a0 There is much to notice besides the cigarette smoking. For one thing, there was little or no obesity.\u00a0 For another, look at all the smiles.\u00a0 These people did not have a lot of possessions, but they had plenty of friends, plenty of joy in their lives, including the fun of enjoying simple things like ice cream cones, or going swimming.\u00a0 The motto of the state is \u2018esse quam videre\u2019 to be rather than to seem, and these folks were just being themselves before the camera. 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