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<span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In 2005, when Celena Owens purchased an investment property in the up-and-coming East </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Georgia, serif"><span style="margin: 0px; border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Baltimore</span></span><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> neighborhood
of Oliver, it was supposed to make her life better. But three years later, the housing market crashed, neighborhood renewal stalled, and the home that was going to be a rental became her full-time residence. Owens fell into what she describes as a “major depressive
episode” that would last for the better part of a decade.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Georgia, serif"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span><span style="font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">That’s
when Owens, an IT developer for the state of Maryland, began to notice a pattern. During her workdays in the leafy suburbs of a nearby county, her mood would lift. “Even though I was still dealing with stuff, I felt a sense of calm, of comfort,” she remembers.
On the commute back to the nearly treeless neighborhood she called home, that feeling would evaporate. “The closer I got to my house, the more depressed I would feel,” she says. “It was just this overwhelming sense of heaviness.”</span><span style="color: rgb(18, 18, 18); font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; font-family: Georgia, serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/mar/12/baltimore-study-trees-mental-health-study?fbclid=IwAR021_FnIQgiS3qkYtFVd388uttQgo9kJer3mOzvirHfgKa9R5pvDwkemVY</span><span style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> </span></p>
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