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BEYOND THE BOXES
By Dr. Dolly Berthelot “Little Boxes,” a catchy and meaningful song I’ve loved since the 1960s, echoes in my head (yep I’m that old): Little Boxes on the hillside, little boxes made of ticky tacky, little boxes on the hillside, little boxes, all the same.” The focus of Malvina Reynolds’s creation, which Pete Seeger popularized,…