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I think Michigan keeps you sane and on an even keel through the ups and downs. In Michigan, I do fireworks, shovel snow and live life.

I'm from Michigan and a down-home girl.

Most places in the Midwest, you ski on piles of trash, like retired landfills.

I was a garbage man in New Jersey in summers during college at Yale. Everybody else got to go to Switzerland and I got to go to the dump.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

In New York, I live on a compost heap of all the stuff I accumulate.

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

So, do you live around here often?

Every August, I go away for four weeks to a place in Michigan. I work in the mornings, spend the month in shorts and flip-flops. It gives me time to think like an investor and come back in September for some heavy planning.