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May 2, 1983, 41 years ago today: I woke up to the sound of freight trains. One after another, they came clattering up from the distant mountain range to the west,
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circled the woods around my tent, and churned off toward the eastern horizon. My tent was pitched in a small, grassy clearing on the summit of Frosty Mountain in the Blue Ridge Mountains of northern Georgia.
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The freight trains turned out to be the wind — raging furiously across a valley, swirling around the mountain, rattling through the treetops, roaring across the next valley. I lay awake for hours, listening to that lonesome, mystical sound, alone on that isolated hilltop.
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The end of the world. The middle of nowhere.
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