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Forest Haven revisited

I wrote a pretty detailed blog post three months ago when I first went to Forest Haven- you can read that here if interested.  I went back down there, this time only for about two hours and I revisited most of the same buildings I did the first time, but man, I don't know what it was but the amount of pictures I got this time are just mind blowing.  I'm obsessed with all of them and needed a place to dump them all.  The sunlight was just absolutely incredible. I'm already eager to go back. I've been in 10 of the buildings down - there's 22 of them.  And half of the ones I went to I could probably do again because there's just so much it see.  It's amazing.


















































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