Montana Story
Growing Up in Missoula in the '90s
Higgins Bridge, a university town that still felt like a town, and Friday plans that did not need a group chat.
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Growing Up Montana
The ordinary days that turn out to be the story.
Growing Up Montana stories
Montana Story
Growing Up in Montana in the '90s
Gym lights, mall Saturdays, and a radio that went to static between towns. The ordinary decade a lot of Montanans still mean.
Old School Montana If…
Old School Montana If…
You watched the river for runoff the same week the schools talked about graduation
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You knew which grocery still cashed a check without making a speech about it
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You crossed the tracks in a railroad town and still used the depot as a landmark
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You tracked hunting season on the kitchen calendar, not on an app
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You knew a supper club by the early dinner hour and the parking lot full of pickups
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You waited for the blue light on the Baxter before arguing about Bridger snow
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You measured distance in radio static between towns, not in phone bars
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You knew winter had arrived when the car complained before the forecast did
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You can still smell the popcorn at a one-screen theater downtown
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Your Friday night was the gym under bad lights, and that was the whole plan
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Your uncle's cooler was older than you and rode in the truck anyway
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