Growing Up In A Small Town

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I GREW UP HERE Growing up in a small town in Dill City, Oklahoma, can really teach a person the importance of life, patience, and learning how everyone can help a stranger in need. To hearing about all of the popular buildings and hearing all about the people can make a person wish they can go back and experience it. Growing up and seeing the same buildings and same people everyday can be some of the best memories you can have especiallly in a town such as Dill City. Hearing all of the stories from your parents and grandparents about how there used to be a store on the corner of the street, and hearing how a fire had burned it down can make someone feel like they had missed a very important moment in the town. Having elders that live in town and hearing their stories about how my dad used to act can have them calling me little Russell. It seems that I am only known as little Russell to most people even to this day. Even with my dad telling them that I do have an actual name they always say "Russell you may not see it but we see you when you were his age and it makes us feel younge again." …show more content…

Since Dill City school is connected with Burns Flat the people around here love sports. Which is about what every small town is like with sports being the main hangout. With the Dil City Fire Department we are always having little cook outs to help raise money for the department so we can have better equipment. With a building that burned down in town can be the big news of the town and can be talked about for months and even years. There are still stories about fire, tornadoes or any other catastrophic moment from over forty years ago that happened in town. With a big fire that happened in town in early June, 2017, I can have a story about the town with my kids or

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