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Origins: Poetic Justice

Where are you from? I asked my wife this. We've know each other for more than half our lives and this seemed a silly question, but she always plays along because she's known me half my life. She knows when I'm onto something. "Lincolnton," she answered. My pet name for her has been LC for years, my little bit of Lincoln County Georgia. She was, is proud of that heritage. Where am I from? We compare, contrast our little nothing towns playfully all the time. Usually she boasts about hers having a grocery store and two traffic lights. My claims to fame are a state park named for a Confederate traitor and access to the interstate. The latter is super convenient, the first is... what it is. "Crawfordville...", I love being from this place the same way people love when a baby smiles at them. I asked what would be my final question: Where is Jordan from? Bruce Wayne is from Gotham. If you know anything about comic books, you know this. The Bat belongs to that c...