About 20 years ago, my cousin moved to DC where I was then living. My "significant other", now wife, and I had never been to WV since we got together and, in fact, I hadn't been there for about 15 years.
I had some bad recollections about the place I grew up in, Wheeling, WV, which wasn't really very typical of a community that was legally segregated. That was probably because we lived across the river from Ohio, which was not segregated and it would have been pretty hard to enforce some segregationist practices as a result.
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