But I think that is normal when you live in a city and come from a small town.

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He won a football scholarship to a small Midwestern college, earned a law degree, and ascended rapidly from the city council of the small town of West Miami, to Florida's state legislature, to the Senate.

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Work the small issues in your town and neighborhood or city.

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Mr. Mehiri, 38 years old, grew up in a small town outside the eastern city of Benghazi and studied journalism there.

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The shooting and abduction took place in Midland City, a small town near Dothan, Ala.

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Of course, my husband, Joe, and I didn't think much about Christmas when we moved from Manhattan to a small town that is one hour and a million miles from the city.

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From the 1950s onwards, the collective turned a once sleepy, small town of 6, 000 into a city with massive high-rise buildings and a population of exactly 67, 881 in 1989.

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That's -- you go to a small town in Iowa, you go to a big city in California -- that decency and goodness of the American people shines through.

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While big-city dwellers are often maligned by those who prefer the charms of small-town life, Park and Peterson note that most people in the country live in big cities and that studies prove that the vast majority of those living in metropolises are happy about it.

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While Web news sites may be sapping big-city dailies' circulations, small-time papers are thriving by covering school board meetings, town festivals and school lunch menus.

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