I was doing my regular sweep of the Internet, looking for topics for my online column, and when it came time to search Google it suggested a strange string of words in the “related searches” section for “Sedalia:” “sedalia homeopathic medicine”
I had no idea that the State Fair City was the home of that mom who discovered the one weird trick to fixing just about anything that ails you. I had no idea Sedville was the homeopathic bane of stubborn doctors everywhere.
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