‘The Golden Mother of Frontiers’
The warning rarely heeded; the choice that often isn’t a choice
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4 min readApr 27, 2024
Some time ago I was driving through the outskirts of my Oregon town, and the vicious irony of the American dream hit me in the face: the scabby trailers, the rusted out cars, the ticky tacky housing developments. The children without proper health care, nutrition, or safety.