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I have a place in Marblehead, Ohio that I like to call my second home. I think it may be my favorite place on earth. It isn’t much, just a twenty-nine foot camper sitting right in front of the Sandusky Bay, but it means so more to me than just a place to go fo ....

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.... for my car, my boat is my most prized possession. There are many people that we associate with at our place on the bay. My father’s best friends have the camper right next to us and they come up every weekend too. They also own a boat, except it is no ordinary boat. It is a thirty-four foot Scarab III powerboat. It has two rebuilt 454 big block motors with 550 horsepower per motor. That’s 1100 horsepower in a boat, which is very extraordinary. The boat has great sound because it doesn’t have mufflers, and its exhaust makes me think of speed. The boat tops out at about seventy-seven miles per hour, which is blistering fast. We like ....