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Hi, I'm Nora Mcnerney and this is Terrible Things for Asking.

That was me doing what should be an award-winning loon call.

I am from Minnesota, that's our state bird, and in Minnesota we have this culture that you might not be aware of unless you're from here.

A lot of us get cabin fever just from being inside for the winter and some of us literally own cabins which can cure your cabin fever because you're technically in a vacation home which is what you may call it.

Some people say cottage or layhouse, we say cabin.

For this story, it's the last weekend in October of 2007 and Pam was up at the cabin with her new husband Steve, a proud cabin owner.

So it's about 20 miles south west of Grand Rapids and you take like right off the highway you take a bigger gravel road for about three miles.

And then from there you take this like a red rock road that goes for about a mile up to the cabin.

And then there's sort of the circle of neighbors that are up there. So there's neighbors, there's people there, but it felt like a getaway, like an oasis.

And it was year round so we would go up there in the wintertime too.

So the cabin was amazing. It's a log cabin. It was built in I think 1999 or 2000 when he had purchased it and it was gorgeous.

It had a loft on the top floor, kind of like an attic loft and then main floor with a couple bedrooms bath and then the lower floor had another bath and just kind of walk out onto the backyard that looked over the trees and the Chippewa National Forest.

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