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Lauren Bacchus is one of many Ashevillians who have found themselves strangely enamored with the city’s sinkholes.
She’s a member of the Asheville Sinkhole Group — an online watering hole of more than 3,400 members — where locals eagerly discuss the chasms that mysteriously emerge throughout the city. She even owns a T-shirt, emblazoned with the phrase “For the love of all things holey.”…