I was born in the 1970s, grew up in the 1980s, and came of age in the 1990s. As a kid growing up in a small Iowa town with nothing better to do, I spent summers scouring the history and biography shelves of our local public library. I checked out books about the Civil War, the Dionne Quintuplets, the Civil Rights Movement, JFK, and Shirley Temple. Readi…
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