📩 Letter #34: On wanting - Letters From Home & Away
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The consequences of more, more, more.
Dear Kate, In 1972, banners covered the West Texas town of Odessa, black and white signs painted MOJO WINS. Neighbors held each other and cried. Fathers shook hands and slapped each other’s backs, grins spread wide. That year, their boys had done it: The Permian High School Panthers were state champions. “We were hoarse from screaming and yelling. We didn’t want to leave the field,” quarterback Jerry Hix remembered years later, long after his high school football career had ended. “Nothing can compare. I miss it.” Photo credit: Robert Clark, Friday Night Lives It was a moment of…
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