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Whether `stringing' or `looping,' tobacco is the tie that binds many North Carolina farm families

Whether `stringing' or `looping,' tobacco is the tie that binds many North Carolina farm families
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When Sophie Sunday told her schoolmates she was taking off halfway through the school day, they couldn’t wait to find out why. “`I’m going to loop tobacco at the fair,’” the seventh grader told them. “And they’re, like, `What?’ They don’t have a clue.” To be fair, most people don’t. At 12, Sophie...

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