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Here are my random happenstance stories related to a place close to Hibbing -- by remote MN standards that is, where it takes you an hour to get much of anywhere.
Before I living in MN, I lived in MI, about 900 miles away. The population of the town in MN is 4,000. So, I'm in MI working at a store and a couple come in. I convince them to give me their info for coupon. The last name is familiar and after some discussion I find out the man's aunt lives 2 doors from my grandmother.
A couple years later, still in MI, a woman calls and asks to speak to a co-worker. I take a message and the woman's last name is Babbitt, which is another little Northern MN town (pop. 1670). My brain filter fails and I tell this woman, "Oh, there is a town with your last name in the Iron Range of Northern MN." The woman says, "Excuse me," and I feel like a moron as I repeat myself. It turns out the woman is from Embarrass (pop. 691 ish) which is the town next to Babbitt and that her family thinks it's funny she married a guy with that last name.
I'm in MI again (very temporarily,) because of my mother's death, and struck up a conversation with a guy at a coffee shop -- his father's generation and older is from my town. Of course, the guy wouldn't just let me read and we had to talk about it a whole lot, and I'm just homesick.
Plus, I occasionally listen to Bob Dylan.
