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I'm still on vacation--just a few days left (sob!) but I had to check out your vacation stories and they did not disappoint! I enjoyed them all, but the winner of the ten hardcover books is Dawn, who won my heart with this line: "Now, being from the flat state of Kansas, the rest of my family other than my dad didn't really believe that in July you would need to dress warmly," because I've SO been there--growing up, I was pretty sure summer=HEAT OF DOOM until the year I went to Maine and found o