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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 ,.«^*£¤###
##¤£*^«.,, 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. ,,.«^*£¤##
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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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