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Deepen the Connection

The highlight of my family's summer vacation wasn't the historic sites like Independence Hall in Philadelphia or Fort McHenry in Baltimore. Rather, for my wife, our ten-year-old son, and our twin six-year-old daughters, the high point of the trip was something that we tacked on at the very end, something that required us to drive some two hours west of Philadelphia into the farm country of central Pennsylvania to the little town of Hershey. I'm talking about Hershey's Chocolate World.

As I walked from the parking lot into the building, my immediate reaction was to notice how many cars were there. It was a random Monday, and the place was quite full. A long ticket line ran around the corner; people were waiting to pay ...

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