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FRIENDS+NEIGHBORS

“Moving here from Illinois, in general, people are
just friendlier. It’s a friendly city. What got me into
community in this city was when I started doing
yoga. I wish I would have known right away the different places to go to when I first moved here – I’ve
met a lot of people that way. I got to know people,
and I got to feel like I actually belong here.”

“I love Texas because it’s become home.”

–GUS CHALHOUB, originally from Lebanon,
at The Centennial Gardens in Hermann Park.

–CASEY BIELENBERG, with her son Justin at Catalina Coffee.

Photography by Batli Joselevitz
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