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A dozen years ago, my wife and I purchased her family’s farm in Orange County, Indiana, with the hopes of retiring there. Then the pandemic arrived, and the federal government realized rural children lacked connectivity and blanketed America’s countryside with fiber optic cable, which we thought was wonderful so signed up, only to realize our farm was no longer an

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