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In the mid-seventies, while teenagers an hour and a half away in Houston frolicked at Astro World or did the hustle beneath twirling mirror bails, I rode my horse three miles into my hometown of Kenney to buy a huge Tootsie Roll for a nickel from Freitag's General Store or learned to waltz at the Kenney Agricultural Society Hall. Though at the time I was peeved to be missing out on modern city life, I later came to prize my bumpkin years, especially as the Kenney I knew began to disappear, spiraling toward what seemed certain death. [paragraph] But dead towns don't jam, at least not like this one does on Thursday nights at the Kenney Store, the sole remaining business other than the post office. Sure, this tiny burg in the rolling hills south of Brenham is a mere shadow of its heyday self, when it...
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