Day 1.  We drove up to Maine yesterday - left my parents house in Charlotte, NC at 4am and arrived in Millinocket, Maine at 12:30am.  This morning we got up bright and early and left for Baxter State Park, leaving our dog Nola in the hotel room (my parents will watch her for us while we hike through BSP which does not allow dogs and they will meet up with us tomorrow so she can join us for the 100 mile wilderness).  When we got to he park we found out that we had missed the ranger who would h...
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The Story

In the fall of 2010 I received word that my brother, Jordan Sielaff, had been rushed to the emergency room by his concerned wife.  He had a bleeding sore throat and was in an extreme amount of pain.  The doctors at the ER informed him that there was something very, very wrong.  No one knew just what it was, but he was not allowed to leave the hospital while they performed test after test.  I was living in the Dominican Republic at the time and it felt tortuous to...

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