The more often I came home, the more trees were gone. It was like my childhood was being eviscerated. There was another OfficeMax or Wal-Mart. This is not my home, I said. I felt in my heart the loss of Turkey Creek. But I think a more dangerous issue is the displacement of our culture.
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