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1. Northwest Passages

Fear of aging grips Maggie on her birthday. Her solution: a native ritual for laying the past to rest.

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Maggie faces her 30th birthday with unease. Taking Ed's advice, she spends the day camping alone to try to come to terms with her personal issues. Joel rescues a sick and delirious Maggie after she faces the criticisms of her dead ex-boyfriends (Grant Goodeve as Rick Pederson, Patrick Warburton as Glenn, Ted Henning as David, Will Plunkett as Bruce, and Garrett Bennett as Steve Escandon). Marilyn asks Ruth-Anne and Chris to teach her how to drive, with mixed results. Maurice rambles endlessly into a tape recorder about his past while writing his memoirs, annoying the townspeople.

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