Factory work, Friday night lights and fentanyl: all three have become daily life in this Mississippi town. It’s early in the morning. Now-retired nurse Betty Hayhurst climbs out of bed and begins breakfast for her family. She walks out onto the patio to watch the various woodland creatures crawl out of the rolling hills of north Mississippi. She removes […]
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