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The Barbecue

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Making barbecue sandwiches at the free barbecue on Labor Day, Ridgway, Colorado. From the archives of the Library of Congress.

When I was ten, we moved to a dusty South Australian town for my dad’s work, and my mom got a job as a psychologist at the local hospital. Every day she talked about the familial abuse victims she saw. According to her, the

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