I lived in New Bedford, MA while I was growing up.  It is called the "Gateway To The Cape" and "The Whaling City".  It was there that my love of the sea developed.  I have wonderful childhood memories.  My parents loved to fish and we sure went to the beach a lot. *smiles*  I remember that on hot nights, my parents would take a ride to the shore and watch the fisherman while I walked the beach enjoying the cool breeze in my hair and that wonderful smell of the sea.

When my father could no longer find employment in MA, we moved to Hartford, CT.  I lived the real city life there.  I worked in a downtown high-rise office and in several places on the outskirts of that city. Some time after I married we decided to try a change of pace, we moved to NY.

Now here is a woman who never owned a pair of jeans, who had to go to a rummage sale to buy old clothes to work in.....living in a dairy farm community of 800 people.  This was quite a culture shock!  I felt at peace though and have never regretted the decision.

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