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Growing up in West Virginia, I got a lot of comments about whether I wear shoes or have all my teeth. When I went to school out of state, I actually had a professor ask me if “folks back home” felt like I had “outgrown [my] raisin'” by going to college. Since the 1800s, the…

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Alisha Huber

Jun 27, 2014

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