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Leave me a message about a strange, unusual, or surprising place that happens to be near

where you grew up or where you live now.

Hi, my name is Patty McCalsky, and we live in kind of a time warp.

It's a small fishing village, just a few steps south of the Canadian border.

It's still very much a fishing village.

Both right and native people go out fishing every day and night that they're allowed.

And really, if you remove the sound of the diesel engines, there's nothing that's going

on today that hasn't gone on.

It takes me back hundreds of thousands of years.

You can see the way the life just continues on the way it always has.

It's something very timeless about it.

One of the cool things about Blaine is that in the late 19th century, this is where the

Americans and the British first met to establish the 49th parallel separating our two countries.

And marker number one is right outside, I live on my sailboat.

Right outside, I can see it from my boat, and then they took it across the country, across

the 49th parallel all the way out to, I guess, Newfoundland.

We also have the P-Sarch, and that is a beautiful monument celebrating the longest, undefended

border, international border on Earth.

So that's kind of cool.

I wasn't born here.

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