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It’s funny how a snowy day in the Midlands Studio loft on the corner of Rutledge and Broad
of South Carolina can affect people. For some, it streets in Camden. “We were just kind of walking
means emptying the grocery store shelves of every around ... we kept saying, ‘I wonder what all our
loaf of bread and container of milk in the place. friends in Camden are doing?’ So we just said,
For others, a day off means hours in front of the ‘That’s it. We’re moving to Camden. We’re tired of
television watching movies. wondering what all our friends there are doing.’”
Then, you have the way Duncan and Laurie That spur-of-the-moment thought set the wheels
McIntosh spent one particular snow day in in motion for the McIntoshes’ move from the
Columbia. hub of Columbia on Gervais Street to the more
“It was a little over three years or so, we were laid-back lifestyle in Camden, a city that wasn’t
living in Columbia, and it was a snow day,” Laurie completely uncharted territory for them.
said while seated on the couch in her Northlight Laurie, who hails from Greenville, graduated
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