"There was a young lady from Gloucester Who complained that her parents both bossed her, So she ran off to Maine. Did her parents complain? Not at all — they were glad to have lost her."
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John Ciardi, in The Hopeful Trout and Other Limericks (1989)
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Maine (IPA: /meɪn/; French: État du Maine) is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is the easternmost state of the US, and the northernmost state of New England. It was admitted to the Union under the Missouri Compromise on March 15, 1820, as the 23rd state. It is the 39th most extensive an
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