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Claudia Roach's Writings

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Jun.16.2011
       In my quiet little farm town in the hot mosquito-infested Mississippi River valley 35 miles from St. Louis, across the river in Illinois, children looked forward to summer more than anything. I was no exception. When school was out, we late-1940s children had the freedom to be children. Our safety was simply assumed, since everyone knew everyone else. The...