Saint Paul Public Library, I am begging you to make this real
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One of my favorite things is taking someone to the Great Lakes for the first time - or describing how you can fly over them and see only hundreds of miles of glittering blue water and no coasts at all; how they have their own Coast Guard (the only lakes to do so); that the Earth's rotation steers their currents; that they're studied using ocean models; that they have wrecked more than 6000 ships - and watch them realize that the word "lake" is misleading and that they had no idea of the size and majesty of them at all.
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Neitokainen is a body of water in Finland, which is shaped like Finland
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(cw: needles/syringes)
gender affirmations & realizations
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