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A Place with No Places

Traveling through South Florida.

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Katherine Dee
Feb 25, 2021
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A high school friend of mine once described our hometown as a place with no places.

I think I learned at some point she’d taken this phrase from a book—I don’t remember which one—and that this was a common descriptor for the sort of town we grew up in, not an original thought from an unusually perceptive teenage girl.

A place with no places,

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