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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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