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We move outward into successive concentrations. Every bit of available evidence in social science suggests that the anomie of strip-mall suburbs is a myth. Life is richer there, safer, more involved, elaborate, and fraught with possibility.

There is truth beyond the facts, she thinks. What they measure isn't what is necessarily. Yet in certain things, the regional cuisines of Asia for instance or the survival of quilting as an active American craft, the strip-mall serves a remarkable role.

Speaking of which, he says, I once saw an incredible production of Ibsen's The Doll House in a blackbox theatre in an Indianapolis mall. You wouldn't have believed the quality of the acting, in a community theatre no less.

I actually can't conceive of it, she says. Was there a college nearby?


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