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Doomed To Burn: Chapter 9

After running for which seemed like forever, Aaron started walking. He saw no sign of Beth. It was a little surprising to him. But he always couldn't figure her out.

He walked along the right side of the road. He came up saw a tall little sign:

HISTORIC MARKER AHEAD

With an arrow pointing to the right. He walked until a slightly bigger but shorter green metal sign appeared

Aaron walked up to the sign. The sign had a thick metal that was painted green with engraved bright white letters. On the top of the sign had the New Hampshire state emblem on it.

"New Hampshire. Huh. Guess she wasn't lying about that."

When they initially met at the camp, Beth told him about the cabin but she only said it was near the border of Canada. He thought he was actually over the border. Guess not.

The sign read:

45TH PARALLEL

At this point, you stand on the 45th parallel, halfway between the Equator and the North Pole. At this point, you also stand at longitude 71° 24' West from Greenwich, England. A line from this point through the center of the earth would emerge in the Indian Ocean...