The first time I went to Memphis was on a road trip with my two younger sisters in 2005. The drive from Chicago to the southern end of Illinois is a long straight stretch of highway absent of dramatic scenery, the road trip equivalent of a flatlining pulse. We flew past soybean fields in a rental car, anxious to get to the party that awaited us: Gracela…
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