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I must give myself credit as a child growing up in Algona, Iowa. I might not have known that the rich, black soil the glaciers had deposited in northern Iowa was the richest in the world, but I did know it made marvelous mud pies!
Digging in the backyard on East State Street, I loved to mix water with the dirt until the mixture squished