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Let me tell you about Coming out while being up a creek.

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The summer we were nineteen, Hank and I were between girlfriends and we decided to escape with our broken hearts into the wilderness. So we took a canoe trip down the Drag and Burnt Rivers. We packed our gear into Hank's old beat up station wagon and strapped a pair of big sturdy aluminium canoes onto the roof and headed up to Canning Lake on the rocky Canadian Shield. From there we headed South down the Drag River. Hank's sister Kelly and my sister Kate were free and in need of escape too, so they decided to join us. We also made arrangements with my sister Lorraine to drive Hank’s car back down from Canning Lake and park it at the farm with the plan that we’d call her when we got down to our destination at Caesarea on Lake Scugog. Hank has always had a bit of a crush on Kate even though she's a few years older than us. And for me, Kelly isn't too hard on the eyes either, although she's a bit older than Kate. Kate can be a bit of a princess and gets a kick out of H