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If Cindy Adams and her BMW ever enterprise to Maine once more, I recommend she come searching for issues that matter. Then, and solely then, will she discover them.
If she needed New York Metropolis style and eating, why didn’t she simply keep dwelling? We Mainers don’t go to the town anticipating pine bushes, clam flats, and LL Bean boots. Was she truthfully shocked to search out rural sights in Maine? I’m no world traveler, however a easy Google search may have spared her the tradition shock that clearly made her overlook her manners.
Right here in Maine, we choose folks by their character. Their work ethic. Their loyalty. Their coronary heart. You realize, the center that sits slightly below the left pocket of the flannel shirt. We discover mentioned coronary heart to be a a lot better indicator of an individual’s integrity than the scale of their derriere. Are we to imagine that she is simply too subtle to spend a couple of days right here in Maine however not subtle sufficient to grasp that physique shaming is merciless and boorish? Ayuh.
I don’t suppose she understands that regardless of the breath-taking great thing about Maine, the most effective issues right here aren’t issues in any respect. They’re folks. Our folks. We assist one another. We shovel our neighbors out in snow storms. We do neighborhood fundraisers when certainly one of us wants assist. When somebody on our avenue is away, we control their dwelling. We pull over to assist a stranded particular person change a tire. We care about one another. We take delight in the place we dwell and the individuals who dwell right here. Many people who’re born right here by no means go away as a result of we will’t think about being wherever else. Sure, even New York Metropolis. She may study rather a lot a couple of life well-lived from a Mainer.
If she does ever make it again, she ought to look previous what isn’t right here and see all that’s.
Shianne Priest
Outdated City