Every culture carries its music in its mouth. Bostonians drop their r’s. New Yorkers turn conversations into percussion. Canadians lift their sentences into gentle questions. Southerners stretch their vowels like warm taffy. Where I was raised, we joked that our vowels never quite left the back roads. Before you knew our story, you could hear …

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