Ron Wilson, director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University
It was three in the morning. Jacob and his buddies were driving straight through to the K-State bowl game in Arizona, and they stopped for gas at a station in Texas. Jacob grabbed a bag of cherry-cheesecake flavored popcorn as a snack.
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