It’s good to have the Island back, isn’t it? I probably don’t have enough time in as a year-round resident to make that statement, even if we did come to LBI for more than 20 years before we retired here. (I will never forget that conversation. Lovely wife: “I’d really like to live on LBI.” Me: “See if you can find something we can afford and we will.” Heh-heh, I thought. Darn if she didn’t find us a little Cape we could get a mortgage on that we’ll pay for the rest of our lives.)
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