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Jan & I are spending the week wandering around the lovely and weird in the Big Orange.\n

Randy is right, and, as is often the case, things are even more complicated\u2026<\/p>\n

Here I\u2019m finding the heart of the nation in all its variety\u2026 <\/p>\n

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Jan & I are spending the week wandering around the lovely and weird in the Big Orange. 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