Twentymiglia
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This weekend we went to see our parents in the airy state of PA. I say airy, because of the space. It’s almost like six feet was always too close for the people of Pennsylvania.
Everywhere I looked, I saw people with the same expression on their face. What was it?Confusion? Numb bewilderment? It’s almost as if we got wiped out by the junk food virus.
I’m not making claims about Pennsylvanians, mind you. I see the same look in the eyes of my Marylanders and my New Yorkers. I see it on the TV people. I hear it in the voices of the NPR reporters.
A tale of fake news: this story made the front page of Reddit today and I decided to click the link. I noticed that the source, NPR, was one I generally trusted, but the link was to an image and not the original NPR story. I got suspicious.
A five second google search revealed two things:
1) The story was written in 2011 and 2) there was an editor’s note.
Editor’s note, March 10, 2019: In recent days, this 2011 story has been circulating on social media with an altered Facebook headline that was not created by NPR. The headline and story published here are accurate as originally published in 2011.
