The revitalization of Glenrio is a love story. Gabi Tuschak, an Austin-based hypnotherapist, matched on a dating app with Erik Spain, a commercial farmer in Olton, about 83 miles south of Amarillo. It was February 2021, and in typical pre-COVID-vaccine fashion, the pair spent the ensuing months falling in love over the phone. “I’d been on Hinge for six months. I was totally disillusioned and about to delete the app,” Tuschak says. Spain, too, had lost faith in the dating apps, but while visiting Austin, he “just got a feeling and downloaded Hinge again.”It was one of the most difficult periods of Spain’s life. He’d been struggling in the farming business, his lifelong vocation. Weather conditions and the ever-worsening water shortage in the Panhandle had…
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