“But on our street somebody always shoveled all of the walks around the house full of retired nuns”
Sounds like a nice neighborhood.
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While collectively Massachusetts residents seem lost politically, at least in the 1980s there were a lot of neighborhoods with very considerate, nice people in them. I am sure there still are many people just like my neighbors then living in and around Boston today. And they too are no doubt shaking their heads at the things the wacky leftists do.