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When you think of pristine preservation of America, you immediately think of Tulsa and Oklahoma.

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Mark Shields
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 25
Columnist
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Weymouth
Massachusetts
Mark Stephen Shields
Oklahoma
Preservation
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America
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Tulsa
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