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The day Nancy Messick mattered

Even in my kindest recollection, Nancy Messick was a strange girl. She could have played linebacker for the Chicago Bears which pretty well nixed her success in beauty pageants and sorority teas.

That put her in quite a predicament in the late 1960s for Junior High Society wasn’t liberal enough to graciously welcome someone who didn’t look like a Barbie doll or had no aspirations to be.

It’s not sur…

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