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TBR: The News from Aug 16, 1980

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Garrison Keillor
I always wrote the monologue on Friday evening, four or five pages, and looked at it Saturday morning, and then not again. I never read it. I never memorized it. I felt that I’d naturally remember the memorable parts...
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August 16, 1980

The town constables are away at a counter-intelligence seminar this week, and Lake Wobegon always seems to be quieter when they’re gone. A town of churchgoing folks tends to keep itself peaceful anyways.

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