I won’t spoil it for you, but if you read Tennessee Williams’s poem “Life Story,” you'll see that it ends on a pretty unexpected note. Williams quite literally...

"... wastelanding is not so much about the inherent value of wastelanded places as it is about the meaning—social, cultural, ecological, or juridical—that we make out of them." Traci Brynne Voyles, Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country

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