White chevronels - narrow chevrons above and below the gold chevron - symbolise peaks and mountains, and the Middleton family's love of the Lake District and skiing.

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There are boaters from Utah and fly-fishers from California, who love the freedom of the lake and the clear trout-stream waters below the dam.

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In the nineteen-seventies, McKinney, a good-looking blonde from North Carolina, fell in love with Kirk Anderson, a young Mormon she met in Salt Lake City.

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He recalls one student who mentioned falling in love with the school's beautiful campus on the Chicago River--too bad Northwestern actually overlooks Lake Michigan.

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