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Bekah Porter: Christmas trees aplenty at Atlanta Botanical Garden's Holiday Nights display
BEKAH PORTER
Bekah Porter is a travel columnist for The Times
Six years ago, my husband and I abandoned the boxy Midwestern state of our birth to migrate to the land of peaches, peanuts, pimentos and y’all’s. We moved for my man’s job and quickly settled in as Southerners, finding the only thing we really missed was fresh sweet corn plucked right from Iowa’s far-reaching fields. Sure, we missed our families.
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Column: A 400-pound statue travels for 13 hours
Ronda Rich
Ronda Rich
It’s no secret — in fact, it’s becoming “fabled” pretty quickly — that Tink and I come from worlds as far apart as Mars and Jupiter.
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