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'56 of the month: Andy Carey

  Have you ever been amazed by the return address on the envelope carrying a card you ordered?   It could be something exotic, like a mailing from another country. There could be something interesting about the person's name or the street name perhaps.   My example is none of those but it did cause me to stop and pause.   I don't live that far away from where I grew up. It's only a two-and-a-half hour drive down the interstate, but it is far enough that all of the people I knew from that place are only connected to me through social media, if that. But a couple of years ago, I found myself going back there time and time again. My mom was sick and it wasn't a simple disease. My dad couldn't care for her much and so my brothers and I made repeated trips. It was too chaotic to prepare meals during those times, so we'd often order out. One of my dad's favorite places was a diner in town a couple miles away. We used to go there when we'd visit my parents duri...