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A one-in-a-million coincidence: Growing Up next door
People say St. Louis is the world’s biggest small town. You’re always running into somebody with a connection to yourself.
You can believe it, after seeing one huge coincidence in the writing of Jim Merkel’s new book, “Growing Up St. Louis: Looking Back Through the Decades.”
Merkel interviewed more than 100 people about their experiences growing up in St. Louis. They were rich, poor, black, white – all kinds, really.

The youngest was Milo Marston, who was born in 2008, 101 years after Hunter. Milo also lives in the 3800 block of Connecticut, just a few doors from where Hunter grew up.
The chance that would have in a town this big? One in a million.
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