How Resilience Was Spun
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The place I grew up in was flanked by open sewers connected to a cigarette factory and a Goodyear rubber plant. It was a subdivision of tiny houses hazardously crammed together, built on reclaimed rice paddies at the foot of two hillsides.
Flooding was a given during monsoon season. We would flip the breaker switch, stack furniture on the second level of…
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