Sedalia is full of generous businesses with generous owners. The list is so extensive that I dare not try to include it, for fear of inadvertently overlooking one of them.
But there’s one that I will name, because we’re losing it. Town and Country Motors (which isn’t associated with the local branch of Town and Country Insurance even if little Travis once assumed it was) is no more, at least not as we know it.
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