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limits. I see glowing domes of light signaling Front Royal, Warrenton and Culpeper, some 15-20 miles away.
There are no stars there, just glowing haze. All I see through my mind’s eye are national chains of stores, car dealerships and gas stations ratcheting up the light level across the landscape to very high levels (10,000 times as much illumination as provided by a full moon!) to attract customers.
Seeing the night sky aglow from man-made light is like a billboard that reads:
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