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       A history of Blockedo
       By: study3600 Date: March 9, 2024, 9:30 am
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       There was once a town in the middle of nowhere called Blockedo.
       No one lived there except two families who lived two miles
       apart. There was in downtown Blockedo a barbershop, a mercantile
       and a saloon run by out-of-towners. No one ever went to the
       saloon but out-of-towners. The two families who lived in
       Blockedo went to get their hair cut and to shop for goods at the
       store and the barbershop. The two families lived quiet lives.
       They home-schooled their children. One family had seven boys and
       one girl. The other family had seven girls and one boy. A church
       was built and the Patriarch of the Eldon family was made
       Minister of it. The Patriarch of the Mitchell family was its
       Bishop. Eventually the seven girls married the seven boys and
       the boy married the girl, and more houses had to be built to
       accommodate the many families that resulted in these couplings.
       Still no one but out-of-towners ever went to the saloon. There
       was no violence in this town. In 1897 a third family with 12
       children, 6 boys and 6 girls, moved in to town and built a
       house. Eventually these 12 boys and girls married some of the
       children of the children of the town's previous inhabitants.
       Others of the town's previous inhabitants' grandchildren
       traveled abroad to seek a marriage partner and each of them
       brought home someone from out of town, married them, and had
       more children. The town grew and grew. The home-schooling
       tradition continued. Today you won't find Blockedo on a map. All
       of its houses were abandoned and its people emigrated to new
       places. Blockedo's buildings are relics of a simpler time. But
       if you go to Blockedo, you will find a quietness and a peace
       about its buildings, though abandoned for long years. Why was
       Blockedo abandoned? No one knows. But it may have something to
       do with the town's low sea level making it a bit too cool for
       many people's tastes, and partial flooding in heavy rainfall.
       The descendants of the Blockedoans are all very blessed and
       well-to-do people, most very spiritual and religious. They are
       scattered throughout the globe, spreading peace and good-will
       wherever they go.
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       Does Blockedo actually exist? No. There are no Blockedoans, nor
       descendants of them. The history I wrote is fictional. But I
       wonder if there were any frontier towns in America like
       Blockedo? It is an interesting concept.
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