Killing Kansas…The Long Goodbye

The Laura Becker
Feb 24, 2017 · 2 min read

In Kindergarten, my family moved to Kansas.

There were higher paying jobs, better schools and more opportunities, for all of us.

Shortly after, my aunt and her family moved there too. And I have such wonderful memories of growing up with her kids in El Dorado, pronounced in the southern Kansas style…“L Door-Ray-Dough.”

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The Laura Becker

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Born in Missouri. Raised in Kansas. Adolescence/young adulthood in Iowa. According to Walt Neft, DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944), that makes me a native Californian.

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