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Timothy Pratt in Plains, Georgia

‘He chose to come back’: Jimmy Carter’s Georgia home town celebrates his life

A sign in the town square reads ‘Plains, GA - Home of Jimmy Carter - our 39th President’.
The town square in Plains, Georgia. Photograph: Jesse Pratt López/The Guardian

The signs, made by hand or machine, less than a meter squared or the size of a truck, were everywhere in this small town on Monday: “Thank you, Jimmy Carter.” “Home of Jimmy Carter.” And, left over from October: “Happy 100th birthday.”

Smiling portraits of the 39th president of the US were hanging around the town where he was born and raised – at city hall, in a restaurant.

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