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Article Excerpt
Life, it seems, can be just about as hard as you make it, but that doesn't mean the hard way is without its own allure. By taking the steeper, rockier path you will sometimes discover that it leads to an extraordinary place where shallow dreamers and the faint of spirit will never tread.
Lane and Sue Dukart illustrate the point. Since buying their 42-acre parcel of secluded Rocky Mountain land in 1991, they have--usually by choice, though often by compulsion, chance, karma or curious and unforeseen twists of fate--done things the hard way. It's made for a long, arduous trek through the past two decades, but it's earned them a way of life most would find enchanting. And that, Lane and Sue concur, makes it worth every backache, blister, and gray hair.
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What is today a thriving homestead beside a usually somnolent creek in a narrow, nameless valley, began 18 years ago when Lane and Sue, then in their twenties and practically tripping over their own exuberance, decided to build a small but cozy cabin on their newly purchased Colorado land. In order to save on rent and be close to the building site--which lies two miles back in on a steep, winding track of rock and gravel--the couple decided to live onsite in a teepee...
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