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When I was in my teens, my friend Robert and I would often visit Forest Glen National Park.

It's a national forest preserve that's located just about 15 miles from my hometown.

It offers camping, fishing, and most importantly for our purposes back then, many winding trails to hike on.

Robert and I didn't have a whole lot to do back in the day, so Forest Glen is where we would go to spend a lot of our time. Both of us enjoyed the outdoors,

and we would go hiking on one of the many trails nearly every day. Sometimes we'd do two or three

depending on our mood. It wasn't long, of course, before we knew them all by heart and we both had our favorites.

That didn't matter, though. We would still go on any of them on any given day.

Eventually, though, time went on, and Robert and I grew up. Robert and I are still good friends,

but we hadn't been out to Forest Glen in a long time. It was recently

that I had been reminiscing about those old trails, though, and I decided that I wanted to go

back out there and visit some of my favorite spots. So two weeks ago I called Robert, and asked if

he wanted to go back out there with me that weekend. And to my surprise, he was overjoyed at my proposal.

He said he'd been thinking about going out there himself,

but just hadn't gotten around to it.

So it was decided, on Saturday morning we would head out to Forest Glen

and meet up at one of Robert's favorite trails.

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