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Nadley Pond: A Short Story
Stacey couldn’t have cared less about the near miss with the guy in the car because he was in a hurry trying to get to Nadley Pond before Ranger Arlen went home for the day. He was camping alone that Memorial Day weekend of 1988 and he needed to connect and talk to somebody familiar. It was weird, but over the last three years, Arlen made him feel that he could come to the place he still felt connected to his friend Arlene, and talk to Arlen as if he was talking to her at the same time. He would never tell anybody that, certainly not Arlen, because it sounded irrational to think it, let alone say it out loud. He craved something crazy, and to top it all off, he had to camp at Wharton Pond because he didn’t have the camper anymore to satisfy

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