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 | Mountain Fever by Janet I. Buck |
The coup de grâce of our Senior year at Oregon Episcopal Schools in Portland , Oregon was an Outward Bound expedition, a 27-mile hike through the Columbia Gorge, the first event of its kind in the history of the school. There was no such thing as a category for disabled children and I was an amputee with a plethora of congenital deformities. Participation was voluntary, of course, and involved training in both endurance and rappelling.
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| Stuck in Detroit by Janet I. Buck |
Spending the holidays in the Detroit airport is an overrated experience, no matter how many faces of happy customers they have pasted in the corridors. Mark and I hadn’t seen his parents and siblings for three long years and we were looking forward to some great big hugs and long-awaited homemade pecan pie, only to be found in the confines of Dayton, Ohio. To make a long story short, we never made it there. The rest of the saga made a Chevy Chase Christmas look like a free honeymoon in Hawaii.
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