Growing up on a lake is a blessing and a curse. On the one hand, I can think of no better environment to spend counting down the days of your childhood. The rub is, you spend a lifetime trying to recapture the feeling of possibilities that the lake offered. 

Looking back, it can sometimes seem that the childhood we lived, on the lake, was very "Twain'esque," that is if Tom Sawyer was a song written by Tom Waits and brought to the screen by David Lynch. Still, I have to say, the memories, both good and bad, always make me smile, cause the memories bring me back to the lake. 

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