"West Texas becomes ever more lonely as population drops," The Houston Chronicle:
Jacob Harrison did what he thought kids from rural West Texas are supposed to do. He went away to college and didn't look back. But after working in Central Texas for a while, he called home with a confession.
"There are too many trees," he said. "You can't see the sky."
...People are leaving, and no one is taking their place... So you might wonder why anyone is still there, in this place where natural beauty is defined by dry creek beds and scraggly mesquite…
"The greatest sunsets. The stars are just right there. You hear the coyotes howling," says Billy Burt Hopper, sheriff of Loving County, home to 82 people and the least-populated county in the United States.
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