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###¤£††-,, I Couldn'T Go To. Regardless How Much ,,-††£¤###
##£†--,,,, Discussed With Others, Or Pointed Out ,,,,--†£##
#¤¤††††-,, On Maps, I Could Not Think Of It When ,,-††††¤¤#
#¤¤††††-,, Alone. I Would Often Travel Past The ,,-††††¤¤#
###¤£††-,, Fork, Where A Right Turn Would Surely ,,-††£¤###
###¤£††-,, Take Me There, But Even Then, Something ,,-††£¤###
¤†††---,,, Kept Me Away. ,,,---†††¤
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###¤£††-,, When I Finally Got There, After Some ,,-††£¤###
##¤£†††-,, Heavy Subconscious Battle I Must ,,-†††£¤##
###¤£††-,, Assume, The Place Was Surreal. An ,,-††£¤###
¤††††-,,,, Esker, Like A Needle-Thin Rift Out In ,,,,-††††¤
###¤£††-,, The Lake, But Ten Meters High And ,,-††£¤###
###¤£††-,, Adorned In Birch, Willow, Bracken, And ,,-††£¤###
#¤¤†-,,,,, Blueberries. ,,,,,-†¤¤#
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##£††-,,,, Walking Atop That Spine, I Came To ,,,,-††£##
¤¤£££††-,, Notice The View To Either Side. There ,,-††£££¤¤
¤¤¤¤£††-,, Should Be Shores, Of Course, But I ,,-††£¤¤¤¤
###¤£††-,, Didn'T Recognize Them. First Off, They ,,-††£¤###
¤†-,,,,,,, Were Much Too Close, As The Lake Should ,,,,,,,-†¤
###¤£††-,, Stretch For A Hundred Meters More On ,,-††£¤###
##¤£†-,,,, Both Sides. But Now I Felt I Could ,,,,-†£¤##
##£†,,,,,, Almost Reach Out And Touch Them. And ,,,,,,†£##
¤¤¤¤£††-,, Then, When I Realized Which Shores They ,,-††£¤¤¤¤
###¤£††-,, Were, I Had To Stop. ,,-††£¤###
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###¤£††-,, They Were Of The Right Lake. But This ,,-††£¤###
####£††-,, Lake Is Large, Fractured, And ,,-††£####
##¤£†-,,,, Bipartite. Like A Pair Of Lungs Carved ,,,,-†£¤##
#£††-,,,,, Into The Granite, And With No Less Than ,,,,,-††£#
###¤£††-,, Five Communities Anchored At Various ,,-††£¤###
###¤£††-,, Points. And So, Studying These ,,-††£¤###
###¤£††-,, Impossibly Close Shores, I Slowly ,,-††£¤###
###¤£††-,, Understood Them As Belonging Many Miles ,,-††£¤###
##£†††-,,, Away. ,,,-†††£##
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#¤£†-,,,,, I Examined The Ridge, The Treeline ,,,,,-†£¤#
¤£†††††-,, Above. Was This What You Saw Opposite, ,,-†††††£¤
###¤£††-,, From Those Other Shores? I Couldn'T ,,-††£¤###
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#¤†-,,,,,, Carrying Forward, On The Very Tip Of ,,,,,,-†¤#
###¤£††-,, The Esker, I Found The Ruins Of Some ,,-††£¤###
####¤††-,, Old Building. There Were Overgrown ,,-††¤####
###¤£††-,, Marble Staircases, Stone Floors Beneath ,,-††£¤###
#£†-,,,,,, The Moss, And Strange Slabs Inserted ,,,,,,-†£#
¤¤¤£†††-,, Into The Slope Like Dams Against The ,,-†††£¤¤¤
###¤£††-,, Ground Itself. ,,-††£¤###
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###¤£††-,, Sitting There, I Could See Across The ,,-††£¤###
¤¤££††,,,, Narrowed Lake My Entire Path To Where I ,,,,††££¤¤
##£††--,,, Sat: From The Stairwell Of My House, ,,,--††£##
###¤£††-,, Through The Old Woods Behind The Tile ,,-††£¤###
####¤£††-, Factory, The Bridge Over Route ,-††£¤####
###¤£††-,, Twenty three And Then Back Under It, ,,-††£¤###
¤†--,,,,,, Through The Fancy Villas, Over The ,,,,,,--†¤
###¤£††-,, Fields, And Then That Right Turn At The ,,-††£¤###
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###¤£††-,, And Then The Stairs Up On The Ridge. ,,-††£¤###
###¤£††-,, Thinking Back, This Was Probably It. ,,-††£¤###
###¤£††-,, Hidden In A Grove, There Were Stairs ,,-††£¤###
#¤£†††,,,, Much Like The Ones I Currently Sat On, ,,,,†††£¤#
###¤£††-,, Old And Worn Down, That Lead You Up ,,-††£¤###
####¤£††-, Onto The Esker. The Point Of Entry. Had ,-††£¤####
#££†-,,,,, I Insted Opted To Walk The Path At Its ,,,,,-†££#
¤¤¤££††-,, Foot, I'M Sure My Experience Would'Ve ,,-††££¤¤¤
###¤£††-,, Been Different Indeed. ,,-††£¤###
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¤†-,,,,,,, On The Lake, There Were People In ,,,,,,,-†¤
###¤£††-,, Boats. I Wondered, Could They Even See ,,-††£¤###
##¤£†-,,,, Me? If I Shouted, Would They Turn To ,,,,-†£¤##
¤¤†††,,,,, Stare Right Through Me? ,,,,,†††¤¤
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