Word: towns
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Mitchell Johnson, 13, found God at a youth revival meeting last September. "He made a profession of faith and decided to accept Jesus Christ as his savior," says Christopher Perry, the youth minister at Central Baptist Church in Jonesboro. Mitchell was new to the area, barely two years in town, and looking to fit in. A classmate brought him to Central Baptist, and the church, for a while at least, seemed to provide a haven...
First, she wrote "in DeKalb, Georgia, a suburb of Atlanta." In fact, DeKalb is a county, not a suburb. The population of DeKalb county is 594,400. It contains many independent communities (including my town, Decatur) and some remaining rural areas...
...grew up in a very small, tiny little Iowa town, the town had a population of about 400. My high school graduating class had 19 people and that was the biggest class that school had ever had. My dad was a school principal and coach, and my mom was a housewife. And they couldn't figure out what on earth anyone would do with Chinese but they figured I needed the money and I had to get through the BA and maybe I'd be sensible and go to law school or medical school. They figured it was a vehicle...
...talking about a place that used to beover one-third Jewish," Wisse says. "You'd go tothe most beautiful glens near every city and town[and there is] a monument to 5,000 killed, 10,000people killed...
Sprawling cat-like on top of a podium in Emerson Hall last night, performance artist Holly Hughes described for more than 200 people how she fled the working-class Michigan town of her youth, "a world of E-Z Care Fabric and Hamburger Helper" and became a "separatist lesbian...