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My name is Carol Whitaker, and I worked behind the second teller window at First Prairie Bank for nineteen years. I knew most people in Joplin by their checks before I knew them by their faces. Farmers with sun-cracked hands. Nurses cashing overtime. Grandmothers buying money orders. Contractors smelling like sawdust and diesel. People passing through on…
Kids & Grandparents · Hospital & Doctors · Bikers & Strangers
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