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Letter: A book, and a state

Editor, Gazette-Journal: One of my many means of protesting in this my 92nd year is encouraging all to read more. A must-read book for this sad and unprecedented time is a book I learned about recently by watching a Book TV program on CSPAN-2 and immediately realized I needed to read it. I did in two stormy days. The name of the book is “Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America.” Author Beth Macy, raised in rural Urbana, Ohio, in the 1970s and ’80s with an alcoholic and sometimes abusing father and a very poor family, yet managed to succeed with lots of help from her hometown supporters. I’ve read a lot of books in this very hard year, but none as interesting and educational as this. I hope our local library can get a copy of this book so all will have a chance to read it. You will find in reading this book both parties were wrong: for example, NAFTA in 1994 with millions of jobs lost by the Democrats and the middle class imploded. Thus Trump. Now on to Minnesota....

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