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A northern michigan love story · Creatures of the Wind

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  SPEAKER_01: I noticed her.
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  SPEAKER_01: Like I I think she was actually running the first time I ever saw her.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like, oh, well she's here.
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  SPEAKER_00: And when I first saw him, he was sitting on the deck of his cottage and I was like, woo, he's cute.
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  SPEAKER_00: He's a cutie.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think we laughed more than we talked.
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  SPEAKER_01: Ah, this is I'm uh feel even better about being being here for this week.
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  SPEAKER_00: I think it was just intoxicating to be with somebody who was that I was attracted to that was so cute.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was 14, I didn't kiss a girl before, and I really wanted to kiss her so bad.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I was like, this is it.
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  SPEAKER_01: We're gonna go to the big swing and I'm gonna kiss her before I leave.
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  SPEAKER_01: And I had my plan, but I was sabotaged.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was another girl at the camp that liked me, and I think she knew something was going on, and she she shadowed us, and everywhere we went, she went.
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  SPEAKER_00: You knew he wanted to kiss you?
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  SPEAKER_00: Yes, and I wanted to kiss him back.
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  SPEAKER_01: But I was ready for the next summer.
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  SPEAKER_01: There was a lot of kissing that summer.
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  SPEAKER_01: I remember saying goodbye and getting in the car and driving home, and it just hit me.
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  SPEAKER_01: I was like really sad.
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  SPEAKER_00: When I went home, I wrote in my journal, I'm gonna marry him someday.
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  SPEAKER_00: I got a letter in the mail.
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  SPEAKER_00: He said, 10 reasons why I want you for my wife, and it was super cute.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were two grades different, so I also felt like we couldn't really date now.
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  SPEAKER_00: I kind of knew that.
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  unknown: Which we do.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had this um theme where I kept dating people that were like unreachable.
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  SPEAKER_00: They had something about them that seemed like, well, maybe I could be the one that reaches them.
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  SPEAKER_00: I would have these relationships almost like a challenge, and I would realize that that's the way that they are, and I was never gonna get there with them.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah, we dated other people.
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  SPEAKER_00: Were you thinking about her when you were dating these other girls?
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had just gotten out of a rough relationship, and Ryan asked me if I wanted to um spend some time with him.
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  SPEAKER_00: I was feeling sore from that relationship, and I was feeling like I just need to take a break.
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  SPEAKER_00: I shouldn't be dating anybody right now because it was so disappointing.
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  SPEAKER_00: And so I told him I wasn't sure, but I ended up going, and we must have spent like three or four days just hiking, talking, cooking, hanging out, and we went on a hike.
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  SPEAKER_00: Ryan laid down on the ground, and we were in this warm spot in the dunes.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's beautiful rocks.
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  SPEAKER_00: So at first we were looking at rocks, and then he laid down and he had his face up towards the sun.
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  SPEAKER_00: And um, and then I went over to him and put my head on his chest.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I was laying down, of course, too.
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  SPEAKER_00: And then he put his arm around me and he said, You know, I've always loved you.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I just really felt it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I like knew it, I knew it, and I knew that's what I wanted.
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  SPEAKER_00: He was like a companion and a friend.
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  SPEAKER_00: And bonus, bonus, he was really attractive, and I was attracted to him.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a year and eight months later, we were married.
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  SPEAKER_00: We were just, I was just looked at it like he was my person.
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  SPEAKER_00: Not that we were dating, like this is my person.
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  SPEAKER_01: And now you own a farm.
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  SPEAKER_01: Yeah.
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  SPEAKER_01: That's the beauty of that life.
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  SPEAKER_01: It just takes you on a journey, and like 30 years ago, you're like, damn.
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  SPEAKER_01: We wouldn't have saw this.
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  SPEAKER_01: We really.
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  SPEAKER_01: It's just amazing how life is