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 | | The image Hannibal, Missouri, conjures up in Americans of a certain age is almost universal. |
 | | In Hannibal, the people know this and make sure much of the town is preserved as the place novelist Mark Twain's fictional Tom Sawyer, Becky Thatcher, and Huck Finn played, a place the writer sometimes wistfully recalled as an Eden filled with lazy summer days, fishing, pranks, playing pirate, and longing to pilot a steamboat. |
 | | His family moved to Hannibal when Sam was just four, catching up with more than 400 other settlers who had come there years earlier when their first effort at town-building disappeared in a flood. |
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