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Summary Of Panhandle Lessons By Nancy Leonard
A story that resonated with me was “Panhandle Lessons” by Nancy Leonard. Nancy Leonard had much adjustment to do when she moved from Illinois, where she was surrounded by loving family and friends, to a remote community in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Similarly, I was raised a lively community in Vietnam, and all was new to me when I moved halfway across the world to the small town of Altus, Oklahoma. From a neighborhood where gates were almost always open and the streets animated with sounds of children, I felt secluded in quiet Altus, where doors were always closed and there were no people in the streets. In addition, the fact it I take a while to adjust to change did not help my situation. At the time, I was eight years old, and it was difficult

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