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In the defiant spirit of Alaska
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winter's harsh challenges
are turned to rugged sport.
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Each year,
as the warm season approaches
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the vast spectacle
of life's resiliency
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unfolds again in Alaska.
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The days lengthen,
grasses reemerge
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and along stream bottoms
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the promise of the future
is renewed.
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Mere glimmers of life now
:38:57
salmon hatchlings
will soon depart
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to return years hence
and nourish Alaska
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as a miracle of summer
that sustains life in winter.
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It's a land of countless streams
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and mountain peaks
still unnamed
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a place shaped
by ice and solitude.
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In Alaska, we are witnesses
to the triumph of life itself.
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Here, we can rediscover
a vitality
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vanishing from our lives
:39:43
and reawaken
the spirit of the wild
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remembered not in our minds,
but in the blood and the heart.
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Whether or not
we will ever reach Alaska
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we all want to know
that such a place still exists.