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Memory Lanes

“Toinaments,” Monica Chieco says. She bowls in regional “toinaments.” She lugs around heavy “bohls.” Sometimes she throws strikes, and sometimes she throws “speh-uhs.” In anyone else, that mix of bowling talk and nasally vowels would threaten to erupt into the kind of New York meanness that unnerves Southerners. But when…

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