The Great Outdoors

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INTER IS COMING. The bleak midwinter. The winter of our discontent. In common parlance, the cold season is rarely talked about in positive terms. Winter and its lieutenants – ice, snow, cold, frost, wind – are usually used as ominous metaphors. No one wants to be

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