I used to believe that all roads named with the name of a place eventually led to that place. To be fair, in the places I spent the majority of my growing up, this was the case. Washington Street in Indianapolis is U.S. 40 and in fact does lead to Washington D.C. Crawfordsville Rd. actually does lead to Crawfordsville, IN. Walnut St. led to Walnut Park. Meridian Street led to Meridian Elementary where I went to school. You have to believe me; I wasn’t a stupid kid. Honest.

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