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Editor's note: The following story was submitted by Adrienne Gross, granddaughter of John and Shelmerdene Folsom of Flomaton.
Flomaton is an easily overlooked town in South Alabama. It's the type of place where there's only one church to notice, and its steeple rises high above the modest ranch homes and one-story mom-and-pop storefronts. It's the type of place where you use landmarks instead of street signs to mark directions for newcomers (although there are rarely any of those), because there is only one chicken place, one supermarket, and one Subway sandwich shop in the whole town.
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