I found this story about "The Death of the American Dream" to be interesting. I often feel depressed because I feel like the American dream that was promised to me all my life seems to be slowly slipping away. According to this article, it's not an illusion. On the bright side, it's not the first time in American history that this has happened. The author points out that the dream of owning a family farm was what preoccupied the first half of our nation's history. It was replaced with the ideal of life in the suburbs. Now that dream, too, seems likely to die. But perhaps it will give birth to something new...
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