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To: Rambi who wrote (59195)	2/28/2001 10:00:10 PM
From: Crocodile	Respond to of 71178

It's been awhile since I read To Kill A Mockingbird, but I think it some of the things that struck me as...real... had to do with the way that, in some towns, certain people get a reputation for being odd or even a little scary... because they are misunderstood. It happened that, in our town, there was a woman who was in her 90s who lived in the house next to ours. Some of the people in the town talked about her as if she was a witch. This was all quite silly, but the "talk" existed nonetheless. I think another aspect of the novel that seemed familiar to me was just the descriptions of evenings in a small town... I should read the novel again and then I could explain this a little better, but I guess what I remember about the town was that there was always a certain "atmosphere" that existed there in summer evenings. I've felt a similar atmosphere in other small towns in summer.... in fact, in October, I was in a town that gave me the same "feel" and really sent me back to my youth....