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MCKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A 1-mile running track through a hay field outlines the Blake family's property.

The Dallas Morning News reports to outsiders, it's nothing special — just a mowed-down path where Shannon Blake and her kids run.

But it's here — running along this piece of dirt — where Blake finds peace.

Before the Blakes moved to unincorporated Collin County less than two years ago, they lived in a typical two-story, suburban Frisco home. But that fast-growing community a half-hour north of Dallas had dramatically changed from when the Blakes moved there more than a decade earl...