Beginning of a personal Memoir.... (Burn After Reading?)

Growing up in Northwest Indiana a person learns to cope with many strange occurrences in their lifetime. These may include, but are not limited to; unpredictable weather phenomena, strange festivals celebrating mundane harvests of the ordinary crop yields, or sub-freezing, monstrous bodies of water giving way to beaches of blistering hot sands. While these things are often dealt with and considered strange to the large majority of Americans, a hurricane ripping through Indiana and dumping its contents onto the mainlands of sprawling corn. It was one of the oddest occasions that none of us saw coming......

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