When I moved to North Carolina in 1985 after living in New York City, the first thing I noticed was a difference in mentality: People were just as smart and skillful but their thinking was narrow and their aspirations smaller.

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As a twenty-something woman immersed in media, I take it as a given that every advertising image I look at has been altered from cheeseburgers to celebrities but I concede that I might be living in the biased vacuum of New York City.

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