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“Welcome to the Middle of Nowhere”
So says Bob, the man sitting across the aisle from me in the G-2 plane we took to get to Midway a week ago yesterday. He’s right and for some reason, I don’t believe it until we’re on the tarmac…on Midway. It’s surreal: leave Honolulu at 7pm, hurdle across the ocean for 2 hours and…
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The red fence
Practicing a writing technique called the “joint attention strategy” by writing about a red fence seen in San Pedro, LA.

