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A Grand Laughter

May 30, 2024
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Hello friends,

Every year in the month of May, one of those cheap carnivals-on-wheels springs up in the same parking lot in East Charlotte. We drive by it on the way to my boys’ workplace sometimes. It is rusty, raggedy, and unsafe. Anything that travels on the highway in the morning, and yet by evening is ready to whip children in circles at high rates …

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