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Cuyahoga Falls: A Short Story

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Cuyahoga Falls is a modest suburb, home to 49,000 (93 percent of which are white).
Ten, or so, main roads divide the northeast Ohioan town. Less trafficked roads with small and moderately sized homes branch off of these primary arteries. Then, there are the roads, the ones that are the side streets of the side streets, that hide within, tucked away from the busier activity of everyday life. Here, all commotion – the vrooming of cars, the roaring of trains, the blaring of Friday night high school football games – is muffled. And when inside a home, the muffles shrink to whispers. For the first sixteen years of my life, this has been my home: a town where I can comfortably go to sleep and awake the next morning knowing exactly what is to happen. …show more content…

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