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I want to retire
As a kid growing up in New York City, Tom Suttmeier was addicted to the romantic western stories of Native American author Ted Trueblood, who wrote about the wide-open spaces of Idaho. So much so that when he was getting ready to retire after two decades as a San Francisco police officer, he knew where he wanted to look.
He and his wife, a flight attendant, began to take weekend trips to the far-northwoods town of Sandpoint to look around. Through a broker, they purchased a house with a view on Lake Pend Oreille and moved in three years before Tom's official retirement as a cop. Eventually, they sold off their old house in San Francisco and became full-time Idaho-ans.
The first night in their new house deep in the heart of Trueblood country was prophetic. They were on the floor bundled in sleeping bags when Tom, 55, saw a bald eagle perched in a tree outside the window. The eagle held a huge rainbow trout in its talons. Another eagle came swooping in to fight for the fish, which dropped to the ground as the birds brawled. Tom walked outside, retrieved the fish, and cooked it for the next night's dinner.
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