Waterfowl Lake
Personal memory by Allison Oborn
1996 • Cleveland, OH, USA
I remember driving down the highway when I was a little girl watching the seemingly endless forests along the side of the road. At one place there was a pond that was always full of waterfowl. The pond has since been filled in and the waterfowl are gone.
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