A few summers back, I convinced my family that we should drive cross country and spend a week on the island.
It was everything I hoped it would be and more, because Judy Blume would never steer me wrong. We did all the island things. We ate lobster rolls, jumped off the Jaw's Bridge, picked up fresh seafood for dinner at the Menemsha Fish Market, ate our weight in ice cream, and may have accidentally stumbled upon the clothing-optional stretch of Moshup Beach (sans kids, thank goodness).
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