As someone who has spent their professional life on the other side of the border, and raised a family there, I can concur that it has come at a cost to family relationships. Closeness. Connections. My well-off but aging parents decided some time ago, for a variety of reasons, that they would no longer travel to the eastern US to see us. That created a lot of resentment on my end even if I did understand their reluctance. So I am sympathetic to that issue. I still think Johnny was wrong to handle the signing the way he did, but the family--distance--border issue is one I understand and Columbus addresses those issues even if it is located in a bordering state.
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