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Frank Cotolo
July 24, 2014 |
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I have been all over the United States, from east to west and from north to south. I bet you I have
visited all of the states over a period of time yet to be determined. This is why I decided to use
this blog to talk about some of the states I love. These will be random remembrances but I know you
will like them, especially if you live in any of these states.
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Once I was in Indiana and I recall the rain falling on the fields that rested along the gap. At
first I thought they were gapped along the field but when I looked more closely I realized that
gapped fields are more common in Mississippi.
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Once I was in Mississippi and found a dozen people that could not spell the state correctly. Nor did
these people understand gapping fields. None of them had ever visited Indiana and they couldn't
spell it either. But one family had me over their house for dinner, which consisted entirely of
pies.
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When I took a bite from a pie I wondered why there were bits of playing cards between the fruit.
The lady of the house, whose name I choose to forget, said, "Just for good luck, honey."
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If I think of good luck I think to a time in Kentucky when I was crossing the Interstate with an
old lady on my back. The poor gal had to get to the other side somehow, so I told her to hop on and
began to walk. Cars and trucks were buzzing by both ways in six lanes. It's hard enough to cross an
Interstate with six lanes alone, try doing it with an old lady on your back. She was very thankful,
though, because we were lucky and didn't get hit by any cars or trucks. Someone told me she died
the next day, as I left for Ohio.
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They call Ohio the Buckeye State but I looked far and wide and did not see one buckeye. When I
asked a resident, she said that the problem was looking far; I should have looked wide more, "and
you would have seen them," she said. But I did get to Cleveland and enjoyed a breakfast there
before I went to Michigan.
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In Michigan I visited the Ford factory and I was amazed at how assembly line workers can eat tuna
sandwiches while they put little screws into big iron rods. I also was impressed by how all of the
workers knew one another by their first names. While they worked I could hear them calling one
another.
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