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From now on, Schlittler will be remembered in his hometown for what he did on Thursday night—not for the Red Sox, but against them.

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Nearby is poetry written in Anne’s hand, as well as postcards from Anne and her sister, Margot, to a neighbor in their former hometown of Frankfurt.

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On a Saturday evening in 1838, a young Illinois state legislator ascended the pulpit of his hometown Baptist church to deliver a lecture before the Springfield Young Men’s Lyceum.

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Made by Japanese blind-box creator Dreams, Sonny Angels weren’t available in Weibel’s rural hometown of Green Lane, Pa. He got his hands on one while visiting a relative in Austin, Texas.

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My dad was a sports star and the high school athletic director in my hometown, a real “Friday Night Lights” kind of place where football was king and athletes were revered.

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