For Duggan, it’s the latter. She attended the College of Charleston and graduated in 2011. At 23, she’s already married — she and her husband have an English bulldog named Winston, and she’s editorial director at BiblioLabs, a small tech start-up that designs easy-to-navigate e-book lending websites for public libraries. The company, founded eight years ago, employs 30 people, many of them software engineers. The median age hovers in the mid-20s, and several of her colleagues also say they’re here to put down roots.

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