... in town who do not get football scholarships. Homer did not accept this fate and was determined to make something of himself. His main adversary was not a person, but was a thing. The old Coalwood coalmine was his foe. It was like a black hole, which our science has only recently proved to exist, that seemed to trap everyone in its gravity offering little ... did when he saw sputnik for the first time. This time it was on a more local level. A sense of awe and pride was felt because a local boy, who very few believed in, accomplished this. It was the coming of something new in the littl...

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