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The words ‘small-town family business’ tend to conjure up a twee image. Convenience stores and manual trades, homely restaurants and pet shops....

The words ‘small-town family business’ tend to conjure up a twee image. Convenience stores and manual trades, homely restaurants and pet shops....

“You can smell human agony inside of the McDonald’s there. Fentanyl smoke, a distinct odor of burning SOLO Cups mixed with scorched marshmallows,...

This story is from the summer 2025 issue of VICE magazine: THE REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL ISSUE. To subscribe to four print issues each year,...

Are you miserable? Of course you are. Did you know that there exist, in the world, reasons not to be? I know, right. I bet you are listening, leaning...
