"Our College Girlfriend"

By The Daily Dish

Chris Beam On Pennsylvania:

We're going to get to know Pennsylvania like it's our college girlfriend. We'll grow acquainted with her baggage from past relationshipselecting Gov. Ed Rendell over Pittsburgh sports-legend Lynn Swann, perhaps because some were uncomfortable with an African-American governor. We'll get to know her friends from homecosmopolitan transplants in Philadelphia, steel-belt workers in Pittsburgh, and wacky, independent farmers everywhere in between. Plus, don't forget about getting inside her headnothing's sexier than probing her feelings on NAFTA, change, and experience.

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