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Comment by Tourniquet

8 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.