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Daron Babcock grew up with a comfortable life in Amarillo. He wrestled at Amarillo High and then in college at Oklahoma. Five years ago, he worked for a private equity firm, living in tiny Frisco, a suburb of Dallas, flying across the country more than 50 times a year. Now, most days in T-shirt, jeans and cap, he stands in the middle of 40 acres of fresh farm produce, goats and chickens surrounded by abject poverty in the urban blight of a dead-end Dallas neighborhood.

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