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I've been thinking about getting a Virginia non resident permit. My wife's family is from the area southwest of Charlottesville - Keene, Esmont, Schuyler, Howardsville, that neck of the woods.

Now, I kind of hate to send the money, but I imagine the problem is with a few at the top of the political food chain.

I'm native-born and Texas raised. My blood runs dusty from the Hill Country. Rattlesnakes and beavertail cactus look like home. But if I had grown up around the confluence of the James and the Rockfish, particularly if I could have met my wife a couple of decades earlier, I wouldn't be the poorer for it.

And there is nothing like a long Virginia table set with food cooked on the same wood stove keeping winter at bay, a dozen or more relatives telling tales on each other and keeping the evening safe from care.