in which I am initiated into a local ritual

[lolaraincoat]

So middle-class people who have lived in this part of the world for more than a generation all seem to do the same thing - they have weekend places, invariably known as "cottages," two or three hours away near or on a lake, and they spend as much time as possible there during the summers. I've never been to one of these before but in a few hours will be joining a few colleagues at another colleague's cottage for a couple of days (this cottage-owning colleague is actually first-generation Canadian, like me, but her ex is from a local family with deep roots here, and I suspect it was his first.) If you promise not to break the internet while I'm gone, I promise to tell you all about it when I return.


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[miriam-heddy.livejournal.com]

The weird thing is, growing up in Ohio, having a summer place, or a weekend place, however small, put you way the hell above "middle class" and into upper middle class.