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I like wharves.  Real wharves.  The kind that real people use for fishing, not the over-commercialized “restaurants, clubs, and boutiques” kind of wharves.  So when this night owl’s Midwestern body was still adjusting to the time change of the West Coast, and I found myself up at dawn, I didn’t hesitate to pull on sweats […]