Veterans Coming Home: Crystal
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OIF Army veteran Crystal hits the road to find her way home to an organic farm.
“I had gone from living, and breathing and working with the same group of people to just being out on my own by myself. I was in such a state of depression, I didn’t see my life ever getting any better. All that time I spent driving around the country, it turns out this is what I was searching for.”
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Veterans Coming Home: Crystal
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“I had gone from living, and breathing and working with the same group of people to just being out on my own by myself. I was in such a state of depression, I didn’t see my life ever getting any better. All that time I spent driving around the country, it turns out this is what I was searching for.”
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