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[ocean roar]

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I'm a big collector
of wishing stones.

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You're supposed to throw them.

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You're supposed to make a wish
when you find one with a ring

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all the way around it.

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Whoop.

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You make a wish.

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Hm.

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Pow.

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[laughs]

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[music playing]

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The air is incredible,
to be near the saltwater.

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And the light is unbelievable.

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It makes you feel smaller
and, at the same time,

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more connected to what's
happening in nature.

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We're on the island
of Chappaquiddick,

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which is a little
island off the bigger

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island of Martha's Vineyard.

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A way you get to Chappy from the
big island of Martha's Vineyard

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is by a little car ferry that
at most can have three vehicles.

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It takes about three minutes.

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It's beautifully overgrown.

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It's overgrown with, you know,
beach plums, and blueberries,

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and bayberry.

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And there's so much beautiful
birdlife, wild shorebirds,

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and then all the
ones that are flying

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around here that you can hear.

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It's a pretty magical place.

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To me, a cottage is
simple, somewhat rustic.

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Yeah, not overly
comfortable, a cottage

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shouldn't be too comfortable.

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Because cottages are usually
sort of open to the elements,

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I think there's a feeling,
if it's a cottage, that it's

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rustic, that it's simple.

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To me, it's usually uninsulated.

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Basically you see everything
that holds the place together.

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You see all the framework,
the beadboard on the ceiling

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and on the walls, and
all the little cubbies.

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I love that.

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Where I grew up, Illinois,
we'd jump in the station wagon,

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we'd head to the Vineyard.

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And we'd spend a month.

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I inherited my
grandparents' house.

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And my kids grew up
spending August there.

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Mike, my husband,
owned a place in West

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Tisbury, which is another
town on Martha's Vineyard.

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It's a more farmy town.

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It's further up island.

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Mike and I got
together and decided

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we would do something new.

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I have a friend who's a realtor.

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I went into his office
and I was, like, Gary,

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I'm just looking.

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Like, do you have
anything on Chappaquiddick

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that's, like, funky, not all
renovated, not fancy, like,

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beachy?

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You know, it's our kind of vibe.

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We don't want
something all done.

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And he goes, oh, I can't
believe you just said that.

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Like, I want you
to see this place.

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And so he shows me this picture.

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You know, they're dark
brown with all these little

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frilly curtains and all this.

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But I'm, like, looks like
it's right near the water.

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It looks pretty cool.

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And when we first saw
it, we were, like, oh,

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my God, all of us, my two kids,
and Mike and I. We were all,

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like, yeah.

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There's something
about the relationship

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of this house to the water.

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It felt, like, connected to
nature and the surroundings.

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It felt just right
for where it is.

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It looks murky,
but that's because

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of the mint and the lemon.

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I think.

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Oops.

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[birds singing]

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Yum.

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That is, like,
the best tea ever.

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Hm.

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I don't know about that.

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That's some pretty
[inaudible] tea.

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This house is all about
bringing nature inside, I think.

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And I've always lived like that.

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[screen door creaking]

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On one end, there's a bedroom
and a kitchen with a bathroom.

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And on the other end, there's
two bedrooms and a bathroom,

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very simple, with a
main room in the center

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and the porch off it.

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So this porch has had a couple
of different incarnations.

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We did paint it white.

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The anchor cutouts
and the shutters

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are original to the cottage.

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We did not choose
those, although we kept

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them and we kind of love them.

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They're great.

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And the name, The Anchor,
came from the previous owners.

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And I think
generations of owners.

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All of this was
brown, everything,

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the ceiling, all the trim.

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Everything was wood.

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And it was kind of
nerve racking to change

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them and paint them white.

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So I wanted to retain some
of the original color.

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I'll show you here on a door.

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These doors we left the
original brown, too.

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It had a real charm to it.

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But we just wanted that
white, airy feeling.

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I do come from a
family of artists.

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My little sister Alexandra is
a painter and super talented.

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This is a painting my
mama did of Portofino.

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I love it in here.

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And actually, the room
plays off of this painting.

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I feel like all the colors
that we ended up with sort of

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are picked up in that painting.

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So this is Mike's and my room.

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And it's a great room.

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We chose this room versus the
other room on the other side

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because A, we get a beautiful
sunrise and also great light.

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I couldn't resist.

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I was folding these,
all my stripes.

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And I thought, I have
to leave these out.

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Because it's so
what you wear when

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you're on Martha's Vineyard,
or anywhere by the sea.

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And a bunch of
these are my mom's.

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So this one, look at that color.

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First of all, the best blue,
it looks like the shutters,

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really.

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So this I think she
had when she was 12.

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And I wear it but, you know,
I add a new whole every time

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because it's so threadbare.

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But it feels so good.

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It's so soft.

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And I feel like it
smells like her.

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[laughs]

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Most of what I have
means something to me

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and has some kind
of personal story.

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And Mike has a joke that if
my mom touched it, I keep it.

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That's not true.

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But I don't know.

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These are just my mom.

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She's not here anymore.

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So that's just her.

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And who doesn't want
to hang on to what they

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can of their mother, you know?

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I am harvesting
some green garlic.

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This is my friend's farm.

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If I can stay connected to the
land wherever I am, I try to.

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I always try to seek out the
freshest seasonal local food,

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wherever I am.

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It smells so good.

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I'm a chef.

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I got formal training when
my kids were in high school.

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So I was a, you know,
later in life chef.

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Being a chef is just
kind of anticipating

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the right food at the right
time in the right setting.

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I obviously like to cook a lot.

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And I do do these
romantic, I guess,

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kind of elaborate
dinners for Mike and me.

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Although it's a
very simple dinner.

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It's just everything
is from scratch.

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And that's how I roll.

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All right.

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Ta dum!

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Do you want some bread?

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Yes.

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OK.

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Yes, please.

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Great day clamming on the beach.

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[laughter]

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The feeling of being
here is pretty fantastic.

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We just got the house all
organized for the summer.

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And it's a treat.

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You think about the name
of the cottage, The Anchor.

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Yeah, we are anchored.

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[boat horn sounding]