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    Chris Erskine: Reunited in a Hallmark hometown

    by Chris Erskine, Los Angeles Times Oct 15, 2019 3 minutes

    CHICAGO - If you can't go home again, why do they hold homecomings?

    In my suburban hometown, the prairie is just starting to pop - a maple here, a birch there. Damn these wide lush lawns, soft as quilts. You know you'll always be a Midwestern guy when you still have grass envy.

    In a couple of weeks, "the caps are off the paints," as Illinois poet June Luvisi once wrote. Till then, the sky puts on a fine fall

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