Skills decline, rust if you like, when not in use.

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On the eve of his departure, Isaac gets together with his best friend Billy Poe, a former high-school football star who has also failed to heed the edict that at 18 you should flee the rust belt altogether.

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"It's going to take a few days, but you're knocking some rust off, " Teixeira said after an 0-for-3 night.

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The Johnson family was as close to royalty as you could find in the rust belt town of Racine, Wisconsin.

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Further south from Mobor, a trip across the languid Sal on a rust-bucket passenger ferry will take you to solace and solitude on magnificent Agonda Beach with its wide swathe of sand.

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