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Alright, pulling into a wasso. Just past the bone air, the bone air motel. Oh boy. This is where you

gotta slow down. Start going 40 because it's a speed trap. Pull it into town. Open your maps app.

Look up Flint, Michigan. Now zoom out two ticks and look directly to the left of Flint.

You'll see a bunch of faint boxes, township lines, to the west, between Flint and the next noticeable

town over a wasso. This stretch of No Man's Land is where I'm from. Thought I saw a yard sale, but it was just junk in the yard.

Alright, and now we're pulling up to what is this called? Bentley Grill. Didn't used to be called that.

My uncle used to work there. Salem Lutheran School, Dollar General, the library, Carl

Manky's barbershop. You may have actually seen this part of the country in B-roll footage

from Michael Moore films. You know, tiny rural homes on dirt roads with rusted out cars in the front yard

and chicken coops and decrepit barns leaning over out back. Michael Moore is fine, I guess, but he's from here.

I've always been kind of suspicious of his ogling. Like, ooh, look at all the poor people in their natural habitat.

Yeah, we're poor. You know that, Michael. But we're a lot of other stuff too.

Technically, none of my extended family's actual homes appeared in those movies, but they might as well have.

As far as I'm concerned, those shots are of us.

My families lived around here for a long time. My dad's mom Ruth comes from an old English family

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