He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nea — Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nea — Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nea — Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nea — Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nea — Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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He'd drop his clothes and slip into the water. The lake's top few inches, after cooking all day in the sun, would be nearly bath warm. "I'd stretch out in the water, " he said, "and lie flat on my back, and look at the stars.

— Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
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