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The defining moments of your childhood, the things that make you who you are, are never really clear until way later. The full impact, the ripple effect of those

moments might not be fully clear for decades. I'm not sure that the ripple effect ever

truly stops.

One of my defining moments happened in Canada.

It was the summer between fourth and fifth grade.

I was on a canoe camping trip with my family and another family

we went camping with a lot. We were about a week into a 10-day trip, which is a long

time when you're between 4th and 5th grade. In fact, a 10-day camping trip is a long time for anyone.

Anyway, this trip was a 75-mile lake-to-lake route in the mountains of British Columbia. We carried our boats and gear between lakes.

Sometimes that was 75 yards, sometimes that was half a mile. Except this one lake that

was connected to the next lake over via a bog, a marshy area with one

thin channel of water, just wide enough for a canoe, just barely deep enough to paddle.

The problem was, when we got to this channel that day we found it

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