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New Year’s Dawn Chooses Between Comfort and Call Home
Ann Craig gazes at Hillcrest’s New Year revelry from her window as a stranger named Jake Berry asks her to join a riotous welcome to 1971. He leaves with a lonely confession, while she weighs a return to her husband in Hilcrest, Iowa, by a late night collect call.
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Ann Craig
Ann
Main Street
Hillcrest
Jake Berry
Wisconsin
Fair Lady
Hilcrest
Iowa