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Old 06-10-2009, 03:40 PM
Graebarde Graebarde is offline
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Originally Posted by pmulcahy11b
Well...it's the place I ended up after living my teenage years in Hawaii, where I had left behind a lot of dear friends. And Texarkana was a real culture shock -- it's a "big little town," with small-minded morals, prejudices, ideas, and most of all, they don't like "strangers." I wasn't just a duck out of water, I was a duck in the Gobi Desert. Those yokels actually told me I had an accent! I don't have any identifiable accent; my "accent" is a composite of all the places I've lived in my life. Texarkana is like a ghetto for white trash!
Well I guess I will agree with you. My daughter lived there for a while and that was her impression also.
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