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"coming and going" by Todd Bates

Last night while having dinner at Friend A's house, the wife got a call from Friend B with whom she and A had gone snowshoeing on Friday. Friend B was calling because she had read the newspaper and discovered a story about an avalanche that happened on the trail they took.

A group of youths aged 12 to 16 and an adult were hiking near Lake 22, a popular trail off the Mountain Loop Highway east of Granite Falls, when the avalanche hit Friday afternoon, said spokeswoman Rebecca Hover with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office.

Wire service stories are the postcards that we never would have sent. Instead of picking out something mundane or kitschy, the AP and UPI sent our college roommate in Wisconsin, aunt in Boston, and childhood friend in Georgia an inane little note in their local papers yesterday. It says that the place we live in--and keep asking them to visit--is full of uptight people with too much time on their hands: Dog Store Sign Angers Seattle Residents.