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As an older teen, I remember going to the lake one summer with my friends, watching them drinking beer at a picnic table near the shore, playing in the tepid water.

As the dusk approached my drunken friends decided to swim across a bay to a distant shore.

They set out, laughing and splashing. A couple of them were drunk enough that they just sprawled in inner tubes and let the other swimmers tow them along. Into the failing light. Across the dark water.

I waited at the shore.

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