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TEEN BEAT.(Itasca, Texas)

The New Yorker

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ITASCA, TEXAS

News travels quickly in Itasca, Texas, where, coincidentally, it doesn't have far to go. Itasca has a central Texas location--just off Interstate 35, equally convenient to Fort Worth and Waco--but its sixteen hundred citizens are accustomed to the rest of the world's not paying much attention, so they pay particular attention to each other. Visitors wandering off the interstate encounter a billboard that says, "Welcome to Itasca, 'The Big Little Town,' " a friendly display of civic pride and becoming modesty. The slogan also appears beneath the front-page logo of the local weekly, the Paw Print Press. When I showed up one morning last month, among ...

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