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"I never had any desire to replicate our experience in the woods," author Sarah Neidhardt says of the back-to-the-land experience she shared with her parents in the Arkansas Ozarks of the 1970s. "I saw it mostly as a mistake my parents had made that set us back financially. But in my journals, I was jotting down my memories of the cabin years. These memories weren t informing my choices, but they certainly informed my inner life, my comfort around diverse kinds of people, my desire for something more than a fully conventional life, and my sense that I didn t have to be one thing or follow one path."