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As kids, we roamed through the Sardis backwaters not giving it the proper respect deserved. As adults, we realized that in addition to all that made Oxford special, we were blessed to have a setting of picturesque landscapes and teaming wildlife only a handful of miles away.
Photograph by Lee Tatum.
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