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To make your home on Michigan's Upper Peninsula, or U.P., as the region is called, takes fortitude--and a little help from your friends. Winter slogs on for 5 months, the annual snowfall is 180 inches and the winds can be fierce. In 1981, the first year that Marcia Goodrich, a 50-something native Californian, moved to the small town of Houghton, the temperature plunged to 40 below, and frost formed on the inner walls of her mobile home.
The population of the U.P. is about 300,000. Physicians are in short supply, which means you look for medical help where you can find it. Goodrich, now the media relations manager for Michigan Technological University, discovered that this means you turn to friends.
In February 2003, when Goodrich learned that she had to have two wisdom teeth removed, that the closest oral surgeon was 2 hours away, and that she would have to make the post-op drive home by herself, she asked her neighbor Patty Peterson for some advice.
Peterson, a native Yooper, as the residents of the U.P. call themselves, who had become Goodrich's "healer," has been a registered nurse...
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