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What We Leave Behind Matters

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What We Leave Behind Matters
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Salena Zito
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BILL’S PLACE, Pa.—Technically, this place is no longer on a map—the realignment of the Pennsylvania Turnpike in the 1960s ended its tiny dot. However, for more than 30 years, if you were traveling up and down the Lincoln Highway along the Bedford-Fulton county line, you were greeted with billboards bearing this charming rhyme:

Salena Zito
Salena Zito
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Salena Zito has held a long, successful career as a national political reporter. Since 1992, she has interviewed every U.S. president and vice president, as well as top leaders in Washington, including secretaries of state, speakers of the House and U.S. Central Command generals. Her passion, though, is interviewing thousands of people across the country. She reaches the Everyman and Everywoman through the lost art of shoe-leather journalism, having traveled along the back roads of 49 states.