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| | Driving Downeast: a week in coastal Maine |
 | | Learning that I was a programmer, she confided that she had this great idea for a website, and she'd tell me the idea to code it up, provided I'd share some of the money (the IPO millions, I guess, she was referring to) so she had enough for her daughter and herself. |
 | | I didnt allow enough time before the official sunrise, and managed to get lost in the country lanes, with the result that by the time I landed in Ocean Avenue, the horizon was already a deep red I must have missed at least a quarter of an hour's worth of Velvia sky. |
 | | The place was run by a couple; the building apparently is a hundred years old; they had a fire going in the living room that served as a guests' lobby; I was checked in by the wife for sixty dollars, but was charged only fifty by the husband the next morning when I left. |
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