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When I was in my late teens in Northern Virginia back in the ‘80s day, I had a Coleman canoe that I strapped to the top of my butterscotch-colored VW bus my father had sold to me for a buck, and I would take the canoe and paddle on the backwater tributaries of the Potomac and do crazy things like skinny dip with snapping turtles and there was a manmade water thing down near Lorton called “Occoquan Reservoir” and we would put the canoe in there and one time an afternoon thunderstorm crept up on me and K. and we had to hurriedly row ashore and wait out the storm under the overturned canoe that we’d set on some big logs and we ate granola and heard the loud thunder around us before it passed and we canoed out and went to Generous George’s Pizza in Herndon and had some beers before a nice long kiss, and we went our separate ways.