When I was 8, we moved from Atlanta to Social Circle. I thought it was a little piece of heaven, an idyllic place that was much akin to the fictional Mayberry of “The Andy Griffith Show.”
Harris Blackwood: Not much Mayberry to be found in Gainesville these days
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