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“You can love completely without complete understanding.”<\/p>\n

–Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“You can love completely without complete understanding.” –Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-lY","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1620,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/go-fish","url_meta":{"origin":1362,"position":0},"title":"Go, fish","author":"Gil","date":"August 5, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"I return to A River Runs Through It every so often. 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