MATFIELD GREEN, KAN. -- In late December 1999, as a nervous nation fretted about what might happen if computers went haywire when they switched over to 2000, Carole Brown of Westwood Hills loaded her possessions into two station wagons and a pickup and caravanned with her parents and brother to her new home, a 12-by-17-foot cabin with no running water or electricity in a desolate corner of the Flint Hills in Kansas.

Brown, a classically trained bassist two days shy of turning 40, had no car and no cellphone — only a desire to remove herself from a civilization she felt out of sync with and a longing to steep herself in the beauty and comfort of nature.

The rancher who owns the land the cabin sits on figured she’d last six months, tops. Her friends gave her three months.

Twelve years later, she’s still there.

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