I recently wrote about my childhood in Canada in the context of places where hockey players come from. My sister Dixie McIlwraith has her own memories, much different from mine, and after listening to President Obama speak the other day about Trayvon Martin and race, she put some of them into words.
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When we were children we lived in Sudbury, Ontario, a medium sized mining community north of Toronto.…
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