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Comment by Tourniquet

10 months ago

My home town featured (33rd!). We considered it vindication!

Vindication like what Ohioans would have felt when Charles Dickens visited America and said that St. Louis was a nice enough place, but “not likely ever to vie, in point of elegance or beauty, with Cincinnati”?

  • Lots of people in the UK grow up in crap towns, and having a book validate that feeling can be good.