on the road

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A lonely tree against a backdrop of gently-rolling prairie.

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Some of us would hustle the married women we were seeing out here. It was 30 miles away. Besides the privacy, we all figured that it would take at least another day for the rumors to get back to town.

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The nurse in Alfred Eisenstaedt’s famous photo of a sailor kissing her in Times Square has passed away. Edith Shain was 92.

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Those Saudis are such bastions of freedom. Why do we have anything to do with them. Oh, right, it’s all about the oil.

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The old wooden prairie grain elevators are almost all gone now, replaced by the cold and impersonal concrete or smaller tin variety.

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