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Paradise is not always what it seems

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Retired Chicago policeman Cal Hooper finds a small Irish village isn’t as bucolic as he imagined.

October 23, 2025

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“What if we imagined wealth as consisting of joy, beauty, friendship, community, closeness to flourishing nature, to clean air and water, to good food produced without abuse of labor or nature?”
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