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Your Boat Sucks
The local shop showed up at our annual spring whitewater paddling festival with these white capital letters screened across...
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It didn’t make any sense to my father. He was a pragmatic man. I’m a truck driver’s son. After...
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I spent a lot of time this summer floating in eddies. Mostly alone. These were the same eddies of...
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