JOPLIN — While doing business in Columbia, I came to dread the look from people across the counter as I handed over my driver’s license and they read my Joplin address. A faint hesitation, then apprehension in their eyes before they asked me, hesitantly, if everything was OK back at home.
DISPATCH FROM JOPLIN: We can be ourselves again
Saturday, July 2, 2011 | 6:02 p.m. CDT;
updated 5:47 p.m. CDT, Monday, July 4, 2011
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