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Minnesota birth patterns explained

A woman I know casually was telling me about her plans to retire in a few months.

I asked her if she had picked an exact last day. She said she hoped her birthday, Sept. 4, would be her final day at work.

I told her that was my late father’s birthday. She then volunteered that a couple of siblings and others in her extended family also had birthdays in September, the ninth month.

“It gets cold in Minnesota,” she said.

* This story was originally published as a post from the blog "The Slice." Read all stories from this blog