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What I Didn’t Expect To Learn From Finding My Parents’ Porn Stash

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Maybe I should have stopped after I uncovered my mother’s old artist’s portfolio, leaning against a half-wall covered in cobwebs. I gently thumbed through the contents: a stencil of well-worn cowboy boots, a sketch of the dinner bell from my childhood, a charcoal portrait of a naked man. With a moustache. Dad?! I was hoping to find heirlooms, not my dad’s youthful and anatomically correct body. But I had my reasons for being up there in the first place. Maskless Covidiots in my apartment building in New York forced me to flee to my parents’ house an hour north of the...

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Breathtaking views, wolves howling, rushing rivers, deep gorges, waterfalls, flushing grouse, frosty mornings, moose tracks, star gazing, birch forests, waterfalls, and more waterfall

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s. The Superior Hiking Trail is a 310-mile trek that follows the Sawtooth Mountain’s rocky ridgeline along the shoreline of Lake Superior from the Canadian border to the Minnesota-Wisconsin border. It’s truly a hidden gem of the hiking world.   I’ve hiked sections of this trail all my life, but there are many miles that I’ve never explored.  I decided that the only way I’d be able to experience the entire SHT would be to start at one terminus and section hike every mile. This fall, I started at the Northern Terminus and logged my first 50-miles on the trail.  I...

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