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Illustration by Carrie Neumayer
Why So Glum
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t's been two months since Men's Health magazine determined that Louisville is a dark-clouded "frown
town" — the fifth-saddest of 100 se- lected U.S. cities, based on unemploy- ment and suicide rates, antidepressant use per capita, and number of people confessing to feeling down all or most of the time. Te only cities lower on the happiness scale, the magazine's re- searchers say, are Detroit (99), Memphis (98), and St. Petersburg and Tampa in foreclosure-clogged Florida (100 and 97 respectively). Imagine the shock, horror, anxiety and anger the "Possibility City" folks — heck, even a good share of those who
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