Walk Down My Lake-Personal Narrative

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I have been walking down this road for too long now. The trees are turning fall colors and the road has been there but barely used. As I was walking I saw a key lying on the ground. From what I saw, it looked like one of those heavy old fashioned keys that was really big with beautiful silver designing. I put it in the bag I had been carrying for the days I had been walking down this road. I kept walking down this road and came to a beautiful lake. There was this sign that said "The Wishing Lake", and next to the sign was a coin. It was fairly big and shiny and inscribed on it was "one wish". So I threw that coin as far as I could into the still lake. As soon as it hit the surface, ripples came towards the shore. I looked around and saw a canoe

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