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.-»;=@@@@# there was this place that for two years #@@@@=;»-.
..-»;=@@@@ 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. @@@@=;»-..
.-»;=@@@@# #@@@@=;»-.
..-»;=@@@@ 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 #@@@@=;»-.
..-»;=@@@@ remember. @@@@=;»-..
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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 #@@@@=;»-.
..-»;=@@@@ fork. @@@@=;»-..
.-»;=@@@@# #@@@@=;»-.
..-»;=@@@@ 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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