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Small Town Loving

What I love about my little home town.

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Small Town Loving
Jacob Duncan

Growing up, you always heard your parents say we will know what you're doing before you even leave. And we all know we can't hide that from them. Our little town may seem like nothing ever happens but honestly as soon as something happens, no matter if it's on the other side of town it will travel all over the town and things start getting around and solved.

Most towns have a Walmart, whereas we have a Dollar General. We did have a small little grocery store, which we sadly said our goodbyes. Our little town may have three gas stations but always has business. Two sit down restaurants and two fast food restaurants. With all our little shops that we have people in our town support them all by buying local to show our support. Doing small things like this help grows our community together.

We may even have eight churches but they seem to always have cars in the parking lot on Sunday morning services. Even though we have so many different churches there are several teens that go to two different youth groups during the week. Which is wonderful because we are all united together!

We all know those famous lyrics from the 1980s television show "Cheers"

"Sometimes you wanna go..

Where everybody knows your name

and they're always glad you came.

You wanna be where you can see,

the troubles are all the same.

you wanna be where everybody knows your name"

In our little town, everyone basically knows everyone, which is super nice cause there's a joyful smile everywhere you go. I always love coming home to visit and know that my small town will always be home.

I love being able to walk around in town whether I'm just running errands or getting a bite to eat I always end up seeing someone I know. And I may only just have a short conversation with them but that's still a small impact on our little town. Even if we haven't seen someone in forever we end up being able to pick up where we left off, with our lives and end up treating it like we've never lost time.

Although we are a small town, we have an awesome school district, sports program and our music and drama department are slowly becoming successful. Our town comes together to support our school events whether that is being a musical event, or a basketball or football game.

No matter what happens to our little town, we all rally together to help fight the cause. Whether it's a sickness, or natural disaster our little might town comes together to help each other out. I love it because it just shows the small towns are so strong and can fight whatever is thrown our way.

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