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Detroit. Part II

You know that scene in the movies...or better, soap operas...when the patient wakes up on the operating table, blurred vision clears up to nurses and doctors hovering over them?  That's Detroit right now.  Years after traumatic injuries and a medically induced coma, surgery has begun....and the city is waking up.  I'm not gonna lie to you.  It's pretty ugly.  Like major deformities, a lost limb or two.  It's gonna take some major rehab and some serious plastic surgery to fix this city.  Detroit is the hot chick in high school who later in life got in a real bad car accident.  She's tough to look at, but you can't stop staring.  You're almost looking to see that magic in her once again.

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