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I’m a Gen X doctor in the Rust Belt who cut back on medicine to compose our region’s story—our way.

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After years of listening to the coasts tell us what to think about ourselves, I couldn't take it anymore.

So I took matters into my own hands. This is the real Rust Belt.

Does this even mean anything? That’s the question I found myself asking when, on October 9, 2026, I got the

Milwaukee, as I know it, will just never go away. And that’s precisely because, well, I don’t really know it.

New York, LA, Chicago, and Miami—they got nothing on “Cleveland!” You’ll just have to trust me on this one. I’ll

Does this even mean anything? That’s the question I found myself asking when, on October 9, 2026, I got the

Milwaukee, as I know it, will just never go away. And that’s precisely because, well, I don’t really know it.

New York, LA, Chicago, and Miami—they got nothing on “Cleveland!” You’ll just have to trust me on this one. I’ll