Valens Lake was where I took swimming lessons for many summers. I spent time with my friends, got stung by my first wasp on the swimming dock, and bobbed around in my inner tube.
This lake is also where I learned to canoe. Sometimes I got scared by the dead logs in the water thinking they were monsters.
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