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"I'll give you a tour
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of the sites of Douglass's youth."
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And it was one of the most extraordinary days of my life.
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I folded myself into his station wagon
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and we drove back roads all over the Eastern Shore.
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He took me for a walk through a muddy cornfield,
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as I believe it, out to the back lot of a field,
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to a bend in Tuckahoe Creek,
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and he said, "This is where Douglass was born.
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Here's where Grandmother Betsy's cabin was."
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Then he took me down all kinds of back roads,
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then we ended up at the Freeland Farm.