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“There was no famine, genocide, or war, nothing even close, in my American rust-belt childhood — only lives that didn’t pan out, and a sense that we were sitting sidetracked waiting for something to happen.”

“For a wealthy country blessed wealth and political stability, the United States has a surprising number of places that possess half-abandoned quality, communities that have been bulldozed, shattered and scarred with bullet holes you have suffered no war.”

“I had hopes of recovering history that had been forgotten in a place that time had left behind.”