It is! I just love that name, Duluth. It rolls off the tongue so nicely.
The thread title was an incredibly subtle clue as well as a Carmen reference, trying to subliminally point you to Minnesota with its large Scandinavian population.
i remember when I was a kid, i wrote the author of a book series i read (Encyclopedia Brown) and he actually sent me a letter back with a personal note on the side. it still hangs in a frame in my elementary school library