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Appalachia

sinkingfeeling

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3. Almost all businesses closed in my little Ohio hometown after

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Sun Aug 11, 2019, 08:48 AM

Aug 2019

they lost the local high school. Current population is 1,783. I went back for my 50th. class reunion 3 years ago. We toured the vacant, decaying HS building, built in 1923. The entire town was depressing.

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