When I was in 5th grade, I was unhappy. My mother had died two years earlier. My father, who hadn’t been expecting to raise me, who possibly hadn’t been expecting to see me again, had transplanted my little irascible self from rural-adjacent Frederick, MD to office-park-adjacent Gaithersburg, MD — “Montgomery Village,” to be exact, a Kettler Brothers’ “…
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