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Yesterday I was driving on a familiar old country road to visit family. Suddenly we were diverted to a fast new multi-lane section, sliced through fields and woods, 3 years in the making and finally open. "This is great," we said as we flew along. "It'll take, oh, maybe ten minutes off the trip."
But I found myself looking over my shoulder at the remnants of the abandoned road, inconvenient, slow, curling, hedged with old trees.
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