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Malibu Lakes.







                                                                                                                                                                                              The still                                       I can still recall all the havoc caused over stops at the yellow light, good times. Yet as these
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              waters flow, like Ed Sheeran’s castle on the hill, our lake remains still. It is here to remind us that boys
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              will always be boys.
                                                                                                                                                                                              waters tell                                     Names changed and passers by who left behind fond memories still linger on this lake. I cannot recall

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              laughing as hard as I did back then, and as these ‘men’ turned to real men; they became fathers looking
                                                                                                                                                                                              of the stories                                  down at their sons creating the same memories.


                                                                                                                                                                                              when young                                      This Malibu lake will only be still for the quiet nights looking over its horizon. We will still find our way
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              back to it and we will sit there, laughing at Jack Nicholson’s temper and how many people he had to pay
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              off for being pissed off.
                                                                                                                                                                                              boys drew                                       Take me back to when...


                                                                                                                                                                                              that first drag


                                                                                                                                                                                              of stolen


                                                                                                                                                                                              cigarettes


                                                                                                                                                                                              and turned


                                                                                                                                                                                              into 'men'.





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