Eliza Blanchard shares the poem, "You Asked What I Remember."
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Author's note: My family lived on the Cape on and off during my childhood, and now my grandchildren love it, too. My parents took us kids to Provincetown as a treat and the harbor lies deep in my memory, as witnessed in this memory from when I was three or four.