But when he passed out one morning, she rushed him to the emergency room in the Dallas suburb of Flower Mound, Texas.

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Besides just warm weather, "We provide economic opportunity, " said Tom Hayden, mayor of the Flower Mound, Texas, a Dallas suburb of 70, 000 where the population has tripled in the past two decades.

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