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Recovery center rejects cookie-cutter approach to healing By AMBER PERRY amber@appenmedia.com DUNWOODY, Ga. – Devin Orrie has been director of admissions at Atlanta Recovery Place since the beginning of 2020. He coordinates everything from the initial phone call, where either the patient or a family member calls in. During that call, they will discuss what’s going on with the patient to make an informed decision on the best route to take. But, Orrie has seen the other side of Atlanta Recovery Place (ARP) as a patient himself, having sought help from the Dunwoody facility in 2019. At the time, he also began working at a sober living home. According to ARP’s website, sober living provides a safe living space filled with “like-minded individuals to encourage sobriety during the early stages of independence after substance abuse.” As an ARP client, Orrie said he got close with one of the owners who knew his job history and thought he would be a good fit. Once the opportunity arose, Orrie said he was eager to hop on board. “I really admired Atlanta Recovery Place staff, their ability to connect and really felt like they cared,” he said. The center offers different program options that are assigned based on need – partial hospitalization, intensive outpatient and outpatient. Apart from setting up long-term therapy and psychiatry for aftercare, staff can place patients in sober living upon request. For sober living, staff use corporate leases at a luxury apartment complex down the road from the facility. Atlanta Recovery Place is a private, for-profit organization, meaning its fund-
Although we are a for-profit facility, this is the only place I’ve ever heard of, or ever worked at, where people are first and finances are second.” JEFF TOBISH ARP Program Director
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Atlanta Recovery Place, located on Mt. Vernon Road in Dunwoody, was founded five years ago. Its staff heralds its individualized approach to substance abuse treatment and recognizes the trauma that often underlies addiction. ing primarily comes from insurance and self-pay. There is no state funding. ARP Program Director Jeff Tobish, who’s also in recovery, said that ARP owners have a vested interest that lies outside of financial benefit – the owners are in recovery, too. “Although we are a for-profit facility, this is the only place I’ve ever heard of, or ever worked at, where people are first and finances are second,” Tobish said. The organization was founded around five years ago when a group of people with a lot of recovery time saw that Atlanta was in need of more treatment services, Director of Business Development Cody Davis
said. Davis started out as a clinician at ARP about three and a-half years ago. He left temporarily to start his own recovery program for men coming out of incarceration and was invited back to take on his current role. He said it was an easy sell because he really believes in ARP’s program. “I truly believe that we fully understand that we’re not really treating addiction, we’re treating the trauma,” Davis said. Individualized programming is ARP’s touchstone. Patients are expected to participate in one-on-one therapy. The center
recently added an LGBTQ+ track for those who identify within that community. Davis said this is an important feature for a diverse city like Atlanta. As of 2021, 4.6 percent of Atlanta’s overall population identifies as LGBTQ+, according to a report from UCLA’s Williams Institute. Both Orrie and Tobish said that ARP doesn’t take the “cookie-cutter approach” to treatment. “A lot of facilities are going to get you in, stick you in as many groups as possible because that’s how most places drive revenue – you know, attendance and stuff like that,” Orrie said. “Get in the groups, rinse and repeat the material they use. Whereas here, I felt like it was almost like a fresh, new approach.”
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Stolen vehicle recovered at Dunwoody residence DUNWOODY, Ga. — Dunwoody police have recovered a car that was stolen from a Gwinnett County home in July. According to a Dunwoody Police, the car was reported stolen from an address on Peachtree Industrial Boulevard in Gwinnett County on July 31. The owner told police that she had left her car parked at a family member’s house while her driveway was being repaired, and the car was stolen from the home overnight. The owner said that a friend of the family, a 24-year-old Dunwoody man, was the most likely suspect. Police and the vehicle owner visited the suspect’s mother’s house in Dunwoody and found the car. While investigating, they were told the suspect confessed to stealing the car to his mother, had given her the keys and left on foot about three hours before. The claim turned out to be false, however, because police found the suspect hiding in the home.
By CHAMIAN CRUZ chamian@appenmedia.com ROSWELL, Ga. — A Roswell firefighter is accused of fatally hitting a jogger with his truck July 13. The incident, which was captured on surveillance video, occurred just steps away from Fire Station 4 at Old Alabama Road and Market Boulevard. The victim
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Dunwoody man arrested for alleged gun threat DUNWOODY, Ga. — A Dunwoody man has been arrested for allegedly pointing a firearm at two people. Police investigating a disturbance at the Dunwoody Crossing Apartments on July 31 were told that a male resident at the apartment complex had pointed a handgun at two people during a domestic dispute. The man was later arrested for aggravated assault, possession of a schedule 1 drug and possession of a firearm during the commission of a felony.
Vehicles burglarized at Dunwoody pools DUNWOODY, Ga. — Thieves were able to steal electronics, cash and credit cards, after cars at several pools in Dunwoody were burglarized in late July. According to Dunwoody Police, three cars were burglarized at The Branches Swim & Tennis Club and the Georgetown Recreation Club in Dun-
woody on July 30. Thieves broke several car widows, stealing cell phones, a Nintendo Switch, credit cards and wallets. After the burglary, thieves used the stolen credit cards at a local gas station and a Dunwoody Best Buy store, ringing up charges of approximately $1,400 from one card before it was flagged and declined. Victims reported seeing a White Dodge Charger in the area that was suspect, but police were unable to locate any further information.
Atlanta man arrested for drug trafficking DUNWOODY, Ga. — Dunwoody Police arrested an Atlanta man for drug trafficking and other charges on July 30, after narcotics were found in his vehicle during a traffic stop. Police officers stopped a black Dodge Challenger traveling southbound on Ashford Dunwoody Road after a National Crime Information Center check on the vehicle’s tag showed it had no active insurance, according to a police report. After speaking with the vehicle’s driver, officers detected “a strong odor of raw marijuana” coming from the ve-
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is 59-year-old Bonnie Lynn AbrahamMikami, of Roswell, who her family says enjoyed daily morning jogs in the city. Ronnie Harper, 68, of Athens, has been charged with two misdemeanors in connection to the incident, including homicide by vehicle in the second degree and failure to yield right of way at a crosswalk. He was booked into the Fulton County Jail July 20 but was granted a pre-trial release that same day after posting a $23,000 bond. Court records show Harper’s arraignment is scheduled for September. According to his LinkedIn account, Harper has been a firefighter with the Roswell Fire Department for more than 21 years. However, The Macon Telegraph reported July 29 that Harper has since been placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigation. The July 13 incident report states Roswell police received a call at 9:05 a.m. about a person who had been hit by a vehicle in front of Fire Station 4. When the primary officer arrived at the scene, there were already several officers and Roswell fire units there. The report states Harper had just left work when he got in his truck and tried to make a left-hand turn from Market Boulevard onto Old Alabama Road. At
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Bonnie Abraham died after being hit by a truck outside Roswell Fire Station 4 on July 13. Bonnie’s sister, Rose Abraham, has set up a GoFundMe page to help cover medical and other expenses. first, it states, Harper said AbrahamMikami was not in the crosswalk when he hit her. But, video footage pulled from Fire Station 4 shows Abraham-Mikami was
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Spruill Center for the Arts schedules cultural event DUNWOODY, Ga. — The Spruill Center for the Arts is hosting Pop Up in the Plaza, a free community event Aug. 18 from 5-8 p.m. at the Spruill Center on the Dunwoody Cultural Arts campus. Spruill is a private, non-profit art center that offers high-quality instruction provided by professional teaching artists. Every year more than 6,000 students enroll in its extensive and diverse programming, which includes quarterly courses, workshops and youth camps. The community gathering will feature live music, refreshments and artist demonstrations. It will also showcase neighboring on-campus residents, the Chattahoochee Handweavers Guild and the Dunwoody Library. Stage Door Theatre will add to the fun with Improv 101. Pop Up will feature live music by BFG (Boogie, Funk and Groove) Band, fresh popped popcorn provided by The Popcorn Lady and homemade popsicles
made by Copper Pops, an entrepreneurial venture developed by Anna Catherine Smith and Hayden Wood through the Dunwoody Finance Committee at Dunwoody High School. Longtime teaching artist John Horne will conduct a painting and drawing demonstration. There will also be a fused glass art demonstration by Starr Petronella. More artist demos are planned. Tours of the Spruill facilities and in-session classes will also be available. Pop Up in the Plaza will return on Sept. 17 during Spruill’s Back to Spruill Week, an event showcasing special workshops and activities to start off the fall quarter. The Pop Up events are sponsored by the Rotary Club of Dunwoody. For more information, email Spruill Communications Manager Sarah Nash at sarah@spruillarts.org.
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DUNWOODY, Ga. — Stage Door Theatre in Dunwoody will return for its 49th season this fall with a diverse slate of performances at home and throughout the Atlanta area. Season 49 at the Stage Door Theatre with include five mainstage productions, four performances by students of the Stage Door Performing Arts Academy, and more than six Saturday community performances in Atlanta. “Our goal was to pick a season that would appeal to our entire Dunwoody community,” Stage Door Theatre Executive Director Justin Ball said. “Familyfriendly shows, a new Christmas tradition, a feel-good musical, a romantic comedy and a heavy-hitting drama.” Performances for the theatre’s 49th season will include five shows “never seen in Dunwoody,” including: “Ordinary Day,” a musical comedy about making real connections; “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”; “Completeness,” a “deft and imaginative” new romantic comedy; “The Niceties,” a contemporary drama; and “Peter and the Starcatcher,” the TonyAward-winning origin story about the classic tale, Peter Pan. Season 49 for the theatre will also
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Veterans stand facing the Sandy Springs City Council at an August 2 meeting. By LUKE GARDNER newsroom@appenmedia.com SANDY SPRINGS, Ga. –– Sandy Springs City Council approved slight design changes to a $51 million plan to revitalize the city’s police headquarters. Located off Morgan Falls Road, the plan is to expand by adding a new building around the existing headquarters. Architects presented a cost analysis of the project to the City Council, which identified $5 million worth of savings. The new building will be four stories, housing the police and the court system, complete with an updated parking lot and surrounding greenspace. Construction is expected to begin next April and run for about a year. In other business at the meeting, the City Council reviewed a concept study for the Roswell Road Transit Access Project, which aims to increase sidewalk access along Roswell Road. The project will expand sidewalks to 8 feet with a 5-foot green space between the path and the road. The project also calls for adding medians to certain areas and updating signage with ADA
compliance. Eighty percent of the funding for the project come from a MARTA transit grant. The city will fund the balance. The council also approved several purchases of rights of way and temporary construction easements to complete the Mt. Vernon Highway Corridor Improvement Project now underway. The project was first approved in 2018. Mayor Rusty Paul also spoke on an initiative he has launched in response to the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas. Paul emphasized the importance of communication between various state and local police agencies so that in emergency situations, everyone already knows what role they are supposed to play. The meeting began with Sandy Springs annual Purple Heart Ceremony, a rite celebrating local veterans who were injured in combat. Sandy Springs became a Purple Heart City in 2016, according to councilmember John Paulson, who explained that on Aug. 7, National Purple Heart Day, the city would dye the fountains purple and light up the King and Queen buildings with purple.
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News company joins suit against Facebook, Google Lawsuit alleges two media giants create monopoly STAFF REPORTS ALPHARETTA, Ga. — Some North Georgia newspaper companies have filed antitrust lawsuits against tech giants Google and Facebook, alleging that their “anticompetitive and monopolistic practices” have caused major harm to news outlets’ ability to survive. Alpharetta-based Appen Media Group filed suit Aug. 3, citing statistics that newspaper advertising revenue has fallen by more than 50 percent since 2006, and nearly 20 percent of newspapers have closed over the past 15 years. “Everyone knows that Facebook and Google operate an illegal monopoly over digital advertising,” Appen Media Group Publisher Hans Appen said. “We are proud to join dozens of other newspapers across the country in an effort to correct this injustice and even the playing field.” Appen Media Group owns the Alpharetta-Roswell Herald, Milton Herald, Johns Creek Herald, Forsyth Herald, Dunwoody Crier and Sandy Springs Crier. The lawsuit alleges that news outlets’ loss of revenue across the country was “directly caused” by Google and Facebook’s practices and that the harm was intentional. The complaint opens with a quote from Thomas Jefferson: “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” The suit references “Jedi Blue,” the codename of a 2018 agreement between Google and Facebook that the two companies kept under wraps. The deal provided that Google would give Facebook preferential advertising rates.
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In 2020, several states’ attorneys general filed antitrust lawsuits against Google as a response to the deal. The lawsuit alleges both companies violated the Sherman Anti-trust Act, an 1890 federal law that outlawed monopolistic practices in an effort to promote free trade and competition. Nearly identical lawsuits were filed in the preceding months by the Marietta-based Times Journal and its subsidiaries Neighbor Newspapers and Rome News Media. Georgia’s newspapers are not alone in their campaign. Appen’s lawsuit is slated to be transferred to the U.S. District Court of the Southern District of New York, consolidated with pending antitrust cases against Google and Facebook from at least 15 states and U.S. territories, including Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico.
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Packing up and moving on One early summer day many years ago, this writer was working outside in the yard as a new family was moving in across the cul-desac. Spotting me, LEWIS J. WALKER, CFP their very young son decided to say hello. Dragging a little suitcase on wheels, he comes up the driveway and asks, “Wanna see my cars?” His mom watched as her son proceeded to take out a very large collection of tiny Matchbook cars, lining them up on my driveway one by one with a running commentary on each one. She later told me that she thought to herself, “That poor man!” Over the years my wife and I became quite fond of the boy and his little sister who was born about a year and a half after the family moved in. As he grew, his verbal and social skills were impressive. Knowing that my wife and I loved to travel, he always asked about our plans for adventures. Upon our return he would ask about the hotels, what we had seen, and it was amazing what he remembered and the conversations that ensued. “He’s going to be a sales guy,” I said to myself. Fast forward to a few days ago. The young man pulled into the culde-sac in his own car, parking clear of the moving vans that were loading up
goods from his parent’s house. Alighting from his vehicle, he greeted me and said he had come to say goodbye to his childhood home. He introduced me to the lovely lady who is central to his life. He’s now 27, a college graduate, and active in his church where he serves as a youth counselor. Recently he started a great new job as southeastern sales manager for a growing company. He’s well grounded, on a great path with strong values, and, yup, he’s a “sales guy.” His sister is a college graduate living on her own in Atlanta with a good job that excites her career ambitions. The parents have every reason to be proud of the children they nurtured and guided into responsible adulthood. A number of years ago, as a second home, they bought a cottage at Lake Oconee as the dad, in particular, loved boating and golf. What they termed a “cottage” would qualify as a palace in many places around the world. Dad made a decision to retire at the end of this year so he and mom, who gave up her job, decided to make the move full time to the cottage. Mom admitted that it was tough to leave the family home where they had lived so long, raised their children, and generated lasting memories. But it was time. So the moving trucks came and went. As this is written painters are readying the home for the new owner. Life transitions of any kind are a challenge, especially if you have been in one place or one situation for a very
long time. The mom recently lost her mom and dad so she had to deal with all of the complications involved in wrapping up an estate, figuring out what was what, disposal of the family home. Now, even though she can look forward to a new life at the lake, merging one home into two means not everything you love and treasure will fit. What to let go of, what to keep? The oldest of the baby boomer cohort turns 76 this year, and members of the preceding so-called “Silent Generation” will range in age from 77 to 97. Caregiving for the elders among us is looming large as a challenge for the older couples themselves, the widows and widowers, as well as their adult children. Members of Generation X, ranging in age from 42 to 57 this year, increasingly are having to step up to deal with mom and/or dad’s health issues and care giving needs. All of this comes on top of soaring inflation, 9.1 percent year-over-year, looming college and other educational expenses, and perhaps career decisions and pressures in our post-COVID economy. Often the go-to “alpha child” is a daughter, although it may be a son, so the decisions you make in advance, mom and dad, to provide for aging eventualities may have a lot to do with the sanity of one or more of your children. What to do with all of your “stuff,” the lifetime assemblage of possessions that can’t go to the new home or senior living facility? Walk through your house. If you were to downsize, or
move to a care facility, what would you do with everything within your gaze or stuffed away out of sight? It isn’t just stuff...it’s bank records, investment statements, computer documents, passwords, how bills are paid, etc. Are wills, trusts, powers of attorney for assets and health care, advance directives, Form DD-214 for veterans, insurance policies, etc., readily available to whoever will step in? Are documents up to date? If you have life insurance in force, have the policies been reviewed relative to performance? Does the alpha child know where everything is, what you want? If you don’t have adult children, who steps in? Perhaps a meeting with your financial life planning advisor is in order. When you check out of Hotel Earth, the only thing you take with you is your immortal soul. What happens to all of your earthly treasures? What happens to your soul? The latter is the most important question. Eternity is a really long time! Lewis Walker, CFP®, is a life centered financial planning strategist with Capital Insight Group; 770-441-3553; lewis@lewwalker.com. Securities & advisory services offered through The Strategic Financial Alliance, Inc. (SFA). Lewis is a registered representative and investment adviser representative of SFA, otherwise unaffiliated with Capital Insight Group. He’s a Gallup Certified Clifton Strengths Coach and Certified Exit Planning Advisor.
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Everybody knew Billy Bates: Part 1 Billy Bates was one of those rare individuals everyone in town knew or wished they did. Billy was a quiet man, devoted to his family, his country and community. He accomplished a great deal in his 95 years and helped many people. Here is his story. William Shirley Bates (1926-2021) was born and died in Alpharetta. He graduated from Milton High School BOB MEYERS where he was senior class president. In 1935, while a member of the Future Farmers of America Club in high school, he helped build a log cabin that today serves as a special event facility managed by the Alpharetta and Old Milton County Historical Society. It is one of the few original FFA log cabins remaining in the U.S. After graduating, he began his freshman year at Emory University. Then on Dec. 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor was attacked. Billy immediately joined the Navy. He served aboard the LST-1013 (Landing Ship Tank), one of hundreds of such vessels built to support amphibious operations during the war. He participated in the battle of Okinawa April through June 1945 and subsequent occupation. The Battle of Okinawa was the fiercest of the war. Hacksaw Ridge, a famous battleground and later made into an award-winning movie, took place on the island during the Okinawa campaign. Kamikazes sank many U.S. warships and killed nearly 5,000 sailors during the operation which was the last major battle of the war. Billy’s nephew Billy Bice recalls his uncle’s stories about Okinawa. Billy was assigned to 20 millimeter and 40 mm anti-aircraft guns and said that shells from Japanese fighter planes would fall at his feet when they bounced off the protective shield around his gun. He also served as a coxswain – the person in charge – of a Higgins Boat, a 36-feet-long plywood and metal boat that carried troops from the LST to the shore for battle. Higgins Boats were dubbed “the boat that won the war” and were frequent targets of Japanese kamikaze planes because of the troops on board. Billy Bates was like a second father to Billy Bice. “Uncle Billy taught me to fish when I was about 12 years old.” Uncle Billy took his nephew to Alabama to Weiss Lake, one of Billy’s favorite fishing spots, known as the “Crappy Capital of the World.” Crappies are a mild-tasting fish prized by fisherman. Billy was also a serious fly fisherman and fished in numerous lakes and streams in Georgia for bluegills and similar pan fish. Florida was also a frequent fishing destination. When the war ended Billy returned to Alpharetta. In April 1946, he and his father William Newton Bates (1900 – 1974) built the Bates Grocery store in a small cornfield across from today’s Salt Restaurant, in downtown Alpharetta, a rural community with a wartime population of about 650. Billy’s sister Peggy worked in the store and her husband William “Woody” Wood joined the business, making it Bates and Wood Super Market. Peggy and Woody are deceased. Peggy worked in the store full-time beginning in 1968 handling the books and the cash register. She and Billy closed the grocery, the oldest market in Alpharetta, in 1986 after more than 40 years in business. Inflation was a problem back then just as it is today. When the store
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LST-1013 The Landing Ship Tank Billy served on during World War II. Here civilians enter the cargo deck of the LST which took them up the Okinawa coast to a refugee camp after the ferocious battle on the island. Circa late 1945.
Every week before dawn Billy took his truck to the Farmers Market in Atlanta and brought back the best produce for his Bates and Wood Super Market in Alpharetta. Circa 1970s.
opened a loaf of bread cost 10 cents. It cost 85 cents when the store closed. Billy’s son Bill worked in the store while in high school and every summer during college. He recalls getting up at 4 a.m. once a week and driving with his dad in his 1-ton stake bed truck to the Atlanta Farmer’s Market to arrive before daylight. They loaded the truck with potatoes, corn, grapes and many other produce items. Billy had an amazing number of hobbies before and during retirement. Bill was a part of many of them. For example, they raised horses that Billy bought from a friend in nearby Lathamtown. One horse kicked Billy and broke his leg. Bill’s job was to break in the horses to bridle and saddle. In a future column I will discuss some of his other family members and friends and describe the range of hobbies and contributions this amazing man made to our community. Bob is the Milton Historical Society Director Emeritus. You can email him at bobmey@bellsouth.net.
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That RV you loved so much is not your friend Christina and I drive our kids crazy, I think. We are very frugal, and we like to buy used things whenever we can instead of new things – like this 32-foot-long class A RV that we bought a few years RAY APPEN ago for not much Publisher Emeritus money. It is giant. ray@appenmediagroup.com It sleeps like five or six fairly comfortably and has three air conditioners, an almost full-size refrigerator, sink, shower, oven and more. And while it is maybe about 22 years old, it only has 36,000 miles on it. When it was running, we liked to take it out to state parks in Georgia for short trips, although a few years ago we did make the mandatory road trip to California and back. I recall thinking when we had been on that winding Highway 101 in California headed to Big Sur that it was odd that there were no other RVs on the road. It didn’t take me long to figure out why. Some of those bridges along that road are scary – really scary – especially when driving
a giant RV. There is no place to turn around. After I drove under the overhanging heavy branches of a huge oak tree and discovered that the vehicle was too high for us to fit under it, and after I had picked up as much of the equipment that had been ripped off the top of the RV by the branches as I could, we finally found a place to turn around and head back north in the direction of safety and solid ground. I am not even going to get into the story about trying to drive through Texas and the Texas sheriff and his deputies who stopped us (for a couple hours) because I looked like a smuggler in an RV, transporting either drugs, currency, weapons, or all of the above. “Now where you been and why are you driving this RV? Where did you leave from and where did you stay last night? Sure you don’t have currency somewhere in that thing? Now who is that traveling with you, your - wink, wink, wife?” Never did care for that state. Anyway, that was another time though, a time when the RV was running. We are now going on about a year trying to get it fixed. The part we
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to get to the AC! That is, it will be very labor intensive so, not cheap. After we had owned the RV for about a year, we figured out that there would always be something that breaks during a trip, so we just started driving back to the repair place automatically after every trip. They are very nice there and always save my spot for me. I used to think that boats were the biggest money pits out there – we have two – but I was definitely wrong; that title belongs exclusively to big RVs – both used and new – and maybe any vehicle made by Mercedes Benz. So, at this point, I am beginning to think that I just need to find a small lot somewhere that has electricity so I can just go park the RV and use it as a weekend getaway that doesn’t move much. Either that or take it to the coast and have it transported offshore so it can become an artificial reef. I am probably not smart enough to just cut my losses. Sure Ray, let’s go look for a lot to buy with electricity so that you can park the RV you never use and into which you pour money like an IV dripping a saline solution into an arm somewhere. Smart, good stuff, no? No.
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