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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
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Norwich
Connecticut
Eastern
Western
Different
Connecticut
Polo
Bowling

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