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My grandsons are not Texans... yet. [paragraph] As a Southern Baptist child in East Texas, I often repeated the memory verse from Proverbs: "Train up a child in the way he should go and when he is old, he will not depart from it." I assumed that, besides the implied spiritual moorings, the "it" in that verse also meant Texas. By the time I left college and could fake a measure of sophistication, I didn't articulate these sentiments. I knew that people managed to live reasonably happy lives elsewhere. I had spent a pleasant summer in Chicago as a student. I was mortified on our honeymoon in London when the clerk in the seedy little hotel we inhabited watched me up end a spindly chair in the lobby with my heavy dress bag. "Well, love, I see you're from Texas," he said. "Don't you usually say 'Yeehaw' when you break the furniture?" [paragraph] My husband, John, agreed to our living in Washington, D.C., one summer while he was still in...
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