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Y is for Yarnell, Youngtown and Yuma Arizona. Youngtown, a suburb of Phoenix, has long been a haven for working-class retired folk. The average age of the population is probably fifty-something, so when it incorporated a name was dreamed up to create the opposite impression to the unsuspecting émigré scanning a map for places to settle. Youngtown—doesn’t that sound youthful and picturesque? Alas it remains a shabby, dusty burg, whatever smalltown charm it might once have possessed having long ago been drowned in the noise and sprawl from Phoenix, like a lamb trampled by a cattle drive. I stayed overnight in a motel there several years ago, and in a vacant lot on the way to a nearby 7-11, where I had gone to pick up snacks, I saw a drunk corralled and beaten by laughing, beer-bellied policemen from the Youngtown PD. I took the long way going back to the motel. Jim ? How to do a “flip-comparison” test on perforations
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