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The videos of people jumping into ponds, lakes, and oceans as part of a New Year's Day tradition are trickling in.
The L Street Brownies in Boston are, perhaps, the best known:
New Yorkers did not go in quietly, of course:
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Fort Wayne...
And Lake Minnetonka.
The practice appeared to make no sense at all in any of the locales.
