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  • Those shining stars, he liked to point out, were one of the special treats for people like us who lived out in the wilderness. Rich city folks, he'd say, lived in fancy apartments, but their air was so polluted they couldn't even see the stars. We'd have to be out of our minds to want to trade places with any of them.

    Jeannette Walls (2009). “The Glass Castle: A Memoir”, p.39, Simon and Schuster