Alaska's lure catches another one

A few months ago a friend Outside I correspond with told me about her friend's daughter who was coming to Alaska for a job during the legislative session in Juneau
As described to me the daughter is a professional woman who prides herself on never taking a permanent job, rather trying one here and there around the country, never unpacking completely and moving on when the job ends.
I told my friend she ought to warn the woman's mother what happens to some people when they come to Alaska. To emphasize the warning I told her this story:
In the 1970s a woman wrote a letter to the editor of the Kodiak Daily Mirror. It went something like this:
"A few years ago my oldest daughter went to Kodiak for a summer job. In the fall I received a letter saying she had found a job that would carry her through the winter and since then she has stayed there.
"A couple of years later, my middle daughter thought she would visit her sister in Kodiak. She spent the summer and then in the fall I got the letter. She'd found a job that would carry her through the winter and she too never came home.
"Now my youngest MY BABY says she wants to visit her sisters for the summer. WHAT IS IT WITH YOU PEOPLE?"
My friend passed the warning on to her friend. Over the past few months occasionally my friend has related some of the daughter's adventures. With each one she sounded more enthralled with Alaska.
I today I received an email from my friend. Here it is cut and pasted and unedited:
So...Catherine has found a summer job in Sitka when her legislature job in Juneau ends. She told Meryl, “I’ll be staying in Sitka all summer...and hopefully forever.”
All I have to add to that is, sometimes people choose Alaska and sometimes Alaska chooses people.
Welcome, Catherine.