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WALTON’S GARDEN CENTER

Bettering Dallas by Organics

8652 Garland Road Dallas, TX 75218 214.321.2387 waltonsgarden.com

HOTTER THAN HECK! Parking Lot Sale! Saturday, August 1st, 9am – 4pm. Come in for annual, perennial, tropical and gift shop items up to 65% Off!

Lake Highlands Acupuncture

Health & Wellness

10252 E. Northwest Highway 214·267·8636 lakehighlandsacupuncture.com

The World Health Organization recommends acupuncture for: chronic pain, high blood pressure, depression/anxiety, digestive problems (IBS, heartburn), common cold, allergies and more! Come see why! Now accepting insurance!

Haven Gardens

Urban Garden Center 7700 Northaven Rd. Dallas, TX 75230 214·363·5316 nhg.com

Your gardening partner since 1951, specializing in garden education, the best quality plant selection and the most knowledgeable staff committed to your gardening success!

Even then, their neighborhood was still in bad shape.

“It’s a blue-collar neighborhood that’s still not rebuilt completely,” Tiffany explains. “The neighborhoods with all the money, they were rebuilt the fastest. People provided the poor neighborhoods with the resources to rebuild. The people in our neighborhoods who have always worked, we all went somewhere else to get jobs and couldn’t come home. We fell through the cracks.”

After they salvaged what little they could, they trashed the rest.

Fossil Rim Wildlife Center

Tours

2299 County Road 2008 Glen Rose, Texas 76043 254.897.2960 fossilrim.org

Book a guided family tour to get the full experience on one of Fossil Rim’s open-air vehicles. Sit back, relax and enjoy the scenery of over 1000 animals on our 1800-acre preserve.

DR. CLINT MEYER

Optometrist

Dallas Eyeworks 9225 Garland Rd., Ste. 2120 Dallas, TX 75218

214.660.9830 dallaseyeworks.com

Allergy season is here! In Dallas it only comes 2 times a year but lasts for 6 month each time! Don’t suffer with eye allergies. Set an appointment with Dr. Meyer at Dallas Eyeworks and have this be the last year you “put up” with allergy eyes.

972.639.6413 stykidan@sbcglobal.net one hour minimum.

“At that point, I didn’t care what happened to the stuff,” Tiffany says. “Our life has now been separated into ‘before and after’ forever and the after just never seems to quite measure up to the before. If you’re a New Orleanian, then you’re a New Orleanian and you’re never quite going to fit in anywhere else.”

After a pause she adds that they “have a good life here,” almost as a bittersweet afterthought.

“Which is why we didn’t go back,” Mark says. “We always planned to go back. I used money to fix the roof of the house, and we had someone take care of the lawn for a while. Until very recently we planned to go back, but we were just kidding ourselves.”

“The more we talked to friends that were still there, the more I didn’t want to go back,” Tiffany says, “because the reports were always, ‘It’s not the New Orleans we all knew anymore.’ ”

Richardson Bike Mart promoted Mark to a manager position at its Garland Road location, and Tiffany’s pet sitting business took off in East Dallas.

“Things are working really, really well now,” Mark says of his job.

The folks at Richardson Bike Mart feel the same way about Mark.

“I thought he was just going to be here a year or two,” Smith says. “That was the agreement. Here it has been 10 years and he’s still here, thank God.”

When the Mansons finally accepted that they weren’t going back, they decided it was time to plant some roots and buy a home in Dallas. They had lived on Lower Greenville for more than seven years, but as much as they wanted to live in East Dallas, they ended up finding a home in Oak Cliff instead.

They finally bulldozed their home in New Orleans because the property was worth more without it, but they managed to glean a few parts — doors, windows and hardwood flooring.

They love their neighbors, and they’ve been working hard to make their house a home. Mark has been using the parts from their old house to build a memorial for New Orleans in their backyard.

“It’s functional as a wall, but it’s more like an art piece,” Mark says. “I’m not an artist by any means, but I like the symbolism. I want to finish it by the anniversary, but it’s a work in progress. So that has been really healing.