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Back then, this city’s long, slow decline had already begun, as Michigan’s once mighty car factories pulled down the shutters, buffeted by the winds of foreign competition.

Today, the angst and loneliness of Simon and Art Garfunkel’s song are magnified many times over.

I found 57-year-old Rachel Oviedo sitting on her porch, staring out at abandoned furniture in the street and beyond, the shell of a plant that once made car parts for Chevrolets and Buicks, but finally closed its doors in 2014.

“We sit here all day long,” she told me. “We see homeless people come in and out of there, they need to tear it down and make something out of it.”

“A grocery store,” she suggested. “Because we ain’t got no grocery stores round here.”

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