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This is my declaration of love. I knew you were something special, when I first saw Mt. Hood, cloaked in white, rising above Portland’s skyline. Oh Oregon, you are a sea of biological fantasy. A natural utopia, with boasts thundering waterfalls, wild rivers, rugged coastlines; its forests drip with life and its deserts erupt in sun-drenched stone.