Word: anoka
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Keillor, who comes from Anoka, Minn., was an unusual choice to deliver the Phi Beta Kappa oration, which is usually a serious speech...
...while, but in due course they got to talking about cars. It struck me at the time as callous--I was 20 and a poet--to sit by your dying mother and discuss a particular low-mileage Ford station wagon you'd seen on a used-car lot in Anoka, and now it seems like the most natural thing in the world. Life goes on. Your mother is dying, but a man needs wheels...