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Are You Telling Me That This Sucker’s Nuclear? Adventures in Atomic Tourism

2012 Column Contest Winner

Anne Wheeler used to live in the Pacific Northwest and have purple hair and piercings, but now works for “The Man” at a white-shoe law firm in the South. To balance this assault on her soul, and free the ‘90s Goth girl within, she spends her free time working as a cemetery tour guide and exploring the vestiges of the Atomic Era.