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Wow, does that resonate. I was valedictorian, I too counted my days to escape. My town was called Eden.
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being normal is evil
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Hurrah, Michael Wells!
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Go MKW!
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The Illinois town with the name that always cracks me up is Downer's Grove.
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"We joined student council, wrote for the student paper, participated in speech and debate club. And we excelled. I became editor of the paper; he was elected president of the student council."

...and they went on to become the inspiration for beloved TV characters Niles and Frasier Crane.
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My dad, who went to college in downstate Illinois, told me about a newspaper in which he'd seen an article titled "Oblong Man Marries Normal Woman". Gotta love those small town names.

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