Word: matilda
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MEET ELEANOR while I walk down the main street of Port Matilda, which is landlocked and not a port at all. She is restaining an ancient rocking chair on her porch. Eighty-two years old, she has lived in that town all her life. She is not unusual. Most people I meet are natives. When I ask one man if he has lived there all his life, he tells me, "Naw, I was born up the road two miles and lived there till...