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    • Indian & South Asian
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    • Middle Eastern & African
    • Pizza & Italian
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    • Sports Bars & Brew Pubs
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  • Dance Venues
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Big Hair

By Margaret Hasse

This fall, our son’s chosen
to grow his hair out long.
He keeps his tresses clean,
Otherwise lets the fields lie fallow,
Doesn’t cultivate with comb and brush.
One woman on Grand stares so long
at his hair, she trips over the curb...

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“I had found my spot on the roof of a red woodshed in the back yard shaded by an overhanging apple tree. An inveterate reader, I found that by lying flat on my stomach, I could remain concealed, safety ignoring any voice calling me from below.”

—Blanche Yurka, Saint Paul-raised actress


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