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Take a walk through the Tar Heel State and you'll come across places named Worry (count on constant concern), Mocksville (ridicule gone communal), Pumpkin Center (the epitome of seediness), Soul City (a glorified ghost town), Roughedge (the populace definitely lacks polish), Stackhouse (Sookie's neck of the woods?), Rattlesnake Lodge (the beds vibrate, but not in a good way), Boogertown (rhinotillexomania is running wild), and Lynch Beach (beware those bonfires). But you don't have to be Dante in order to tour the town with this week's superlative appellation:
Half Hell. Imagine a community whose borders overlap Tophet's. A place where every other thoroughfare is a road to perdition. Or where sinister torment is the norm for twelve hours each day.
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