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birchbarkcanoe  ·  3265 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is the story behind your username?

At my summer camp (where I'm now a counselor), we tell a story about a Native American princess who is banished from her tribe. She is cast away from shore in a birch bark canoe on a foggy night and never seen again. As the story goes, her ghost paddles around the lake every seven summers on a foggy night.

I created my account a few weeks after camp one year, and I was feeling campsick (is that a word? Like the opposite of homesick?) and I was thinking about this story.....and I mean, birch bark is pretty and canoeing is cool, so why not?