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Into the woods GEORGIA

eppered by silverly flakes of mica, the forest trails of North Georgia seem to sparkle in the mid-morning light. No wonder my guide wants her ashes scattered here: there’s a wild and uncontained beauty to these hills. Bounding around the boulders ahead, 71-year-old Darcy Douglas first came here more than 40 years ago. On the heels of a divorce, she found a new lifelong partner in this soil — a nearly 300-mile loop

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