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The Shiny Shorts: How A Huge NBA Rivalry Came to a Tiny Town

I live in a small town, a rural paradise that's half old farmland, half bedroom community for bigger cities nearby.

One of the benefits of living among fewer than a thousand people is knowing folks and sharing things. All of the children in our town pretty much grow up together as a unit, which means most of the parents clump together as well. We pool resources like rides to soccer games, piano practice time, weekend slumber parties, and, inevitably, hand-me-down clothing. If a person didn't want to buy a single stitch of clothing for their children from ages 0-15, they could probably manage just fine on leftovers from our town.