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[draggonlaady]

The virtues of second-home ownership were not something I ever grasped. I grew up in Michigan, where many of our neighbors had a cottage or cabin "up north" -- the vast stretch of the state where it was even colder than it was in our neck of the woods. These primitive structures could be used for summer pleasures like swimming in freezing lakes and swatting away flies the size of hummingbirds, and for utterly mystifying winter pursuits like ice fishing and cross-country skiing. My parents were displaced New Yorkers. Our primary winter sports were reading and brooding.

Daniel Gross