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Catherine MacBride/Stocksy Save for a short stint assigned to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Hawaii and a few years living in San Diego, I have lived my entire life near or above the 45th northern parallel. To picture where that is, think: all of Washington state, most of Minnesota, the northern borders of Vermont and New Hampshire, southern France, and northern Italy. That means that I’ve come to know summer for long, warm evenings that stretch well into the summer nights. It also means that the time of year we’re in now late fall heading into winter can have me cursing the dark like our ancient cave-dwelling ancestors may well have done. ....