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No one’s approached us yet with the offer of free land, but if this story is any indication, it could happen soon. At least 30 rural American towns are now offering free land to people willing to move there, in a movement known as “economic gardening,” which, according to this site, started in 1982 in the town of Leadville, Colorado. (With a name like Leadville … ) Well, anyway, since the burg we grew up in could just as well be named the “official home of the

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