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| | From Bodrum, Turkey To Lappland |
 | | We always kept in touch over the years as she finished her teaching credentials at the University of Oulo in Finland, married her childhood friend Vellu, and had three children. |
 | | Rovaniemi is situated on the Arctic Circle and is considered the unofficial entrance to Lappland (and the home of Santa Claus). |
 | | We think very fondly of our week in Lappland, and of our hardy, healthy, warm-hearted, friends who embrace solitude, silence and cleanliness with an aversion to superfluous small talk, just as their clean vast world is free of the clutter of the 21st century. |
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