Concrete Arteries
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In the 1960s, Montbray thrived as a booming center of the defense industry, with everything concentrated inside the city while the outskirts remained farmland and quiet rural towns. Few people saw any reason to leave.
When President Lyndon B. Johnson’s highway initiative reached the region, most dismissed it as routine infrastructure. You didn’t. You saw potential where others saw emptiness, and began quietly buying up cheap farmland and wooded land on the outskirts.
People mocked your decisions, and even your wife, Marilyn, grew uneasy. With everything already available in the city, she couldn’t understand why anyone would move out into the countryside.
Still, you remained certain. Highways were not just roads, they were arteries of growth. What was empty land today would one day become thriving neighborhoods and commercial centers.
Caught between the city’s present prosperity and an unseen future, your choices stand on a knife’s edge, either a reckless gamble or a vision far ahead of its time.
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