There are 100 counties in North Carolina, Ali, many of them like Mitchell County and thousands of towns around the country like Spruce Pine, a lot of people basically just trying to make new lives for themselves, either in their communities or maybe thinking about moving elsewhere -- Ali.

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In their studies, University of Chicago psychologists Minjung Koo and Ayelet Fishbach examined how people pursuing goals were affected by focusing on either how far they had already come (to-date thinking) or what was left to be accomplished (to-go thinking).

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Some of it may also be either nostalgia or wishful thinking, as many of us have been re-engineered into online writers after years of cobbling deeply reported pieces for newspapers and magazines.

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