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Oh my goodness, gracious, I'm
so happy to see you back, my

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dear. It's been far too long, even when it's only been one night.

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You know, I've been sitting and
thinking, what's that? Oh no,

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no, no, no, not
about that, Not about that,

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at least not right now. No, no, no, I've been sitting

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and thinking, thinking about the weather, weather turning cold, the leaves shriveling

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and falling from the branches. That's
been on my mind a lot lately,

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even though I well, I generally
never leave here, but well that's not

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your concern, not your concern at
all. No, no, no,

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no, no no. I mostly
just think about being somewhere else. You

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see, I used to be many
other places. But now, well this

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is really it, it, it
really is. So. So I've picked

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an oldie and a goodie, which
I always do for you tonight, and

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it's one that takes us away from
here, away from all of this,

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from all of that, and allows
us to have a nice time, some

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fun in the sun, the sun, which I'm sure you will appreciate as

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much as I will. Oh my, yes, oh my, yes,

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my dear. So get comfortable,
comfortable, and make sure you remember your

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Sun's creams because you're going to need
it. Where we are going the CBS

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Radio Mystery Theater presents come in.
Welcome. I'm Timmy Grimes. This is

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a story of love and loss and
how people deal with them or fail to

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deal with them. There is hardly
a more powerful emotion the human psyche can

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support than love. When love is
lost, there is no greater tragedy it

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is called upon to endure. Yet
no one is immune from either experience.

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We all love, we all lose
most of us, not once, but

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many times. It is a wonder
that we survive, Yet somehow we do.

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Look there, straight out over the
water. Do you see them?

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One just dip down to catch a
fish. What kind of birds are they?

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See? What long wings they have? Those are Manx shearwaters, the

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first I've ever seen migrating. Now
those must be the grown birds, the

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adult ones. Where are the little
ones? The babies and the chore?

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Oh they've been left behind, how
by themselves alone, by themselves. Don't

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worry, they'll catch up. How
can they with nobody to show them?

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If they won't know how. Our
mystery drama Sam Castles is written especially for

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the Mystery Theater by Elspeth Eric and
stars Norman Rose and jad Erond. I'll

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be back shortly with that one.
When we're speaking of love and loss,

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the joy that exists and the pain
that follows. For when we love,

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we invest a portion of ourselves in
the one we love, and when that

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loved one is lost to us,
a bit of ourselves is torn away,

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said to drift as it were,
with no home, nothing to which it

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can attach itself. We are then
the rest and helpless, calling come back,

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come back. I'm Jeremy Denham.
Two years ago I was forcibly retired

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because of age from my teaching job. Last year my wife died. My

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children live at a distance, with
the families of their own. What to

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do with myself? It was with
relief that I turned to my enthusiasm of

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many years bird watching, with particular
interest in shore and water birds and their

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fascinating migrations. There was a bird
sanctuary on an island not too far away,

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and I had the name of its
caretaker, Ralph Poole. I wrote

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to him, and as soon as
I arrived on the island, I strolled

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down the beach to seek him out. Before I could reach him, I

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saw a girl good afternoon, lovely
day. What are you doing? That

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was a silly question, wasn't it. You're building a sand castle. Anybody

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can see that. You mind if
I sit down for a minute and watch

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you if you want to, I
don't mind. You're making the moat,

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now, aren't you. Every good
sand castle has to have a moat.

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The sea comes in later and fills
it up. I remember how it was.

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Yes, I built a lot of
sand castles when I was young,

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oh much younger than you. It
was being on the beach so much when

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I was little that got me interested
in birds. That's my avocation, my

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hobby, especially shore and water birds. Hey, well, I'm here now

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because this is about the time when
most of them start their migration. It

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took us south for the winter.
Oh, it's about time for the lesser

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yellow legs to start for Martinique.
Is it nineteen hundred and thirty miles and

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they do it in six days.
That's three hundred and twenty two miles a

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day, not that I guess not. Look there, straight out over the

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water, one just dip down to
catch a fish. I think they're shearwaters.

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They look like seagull No, no, no, no, no,

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you see what long wings they have. I believe those are Manx shearwaters,

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the first I've ever seen migrating.
Those must be the grown birds, the

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adult ones. Where are the little
ones? Oh, they've been left behind.

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Are by themselves alone, by themselves. Don't worry, they'll find their

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way. How can they with nobody
to show them? Oh, now,

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don't be upset. It's not unusual
among birds. The shearwaters hatch their chicks

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in dark burrows up north and spend
all their time fattening them up. If

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the chicks get so chubby when it
comes time to migrate, they can't get

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out of their burrows, and their
parents simply go off and leave them.

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What happens to them? Oh?
They go on a diet? Do you

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mean that? Until they slim down
and their tail feathers grow. And then

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they squeeze themselves out of the burrow
and they head out to sea. How

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do they know where to go?
I wish I could tell you, but

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I can. I don't know.
Nobody does. But these youngsters will locate

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the ocean and find food and fly
over the sea for hundreds and hundreds of

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miles, all on their own,
with no one and nothing to guide them

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but their own instinct. That had
been the only display of emotion the girl

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had shown, and when it had
subsided, she sat staring out to sea

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without speaking. After a little lie, got up and left her to make

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my way to my original destination,
the small cottage belonging to Ralph Pool.

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Come in, mister Denam, come
in. Oh thank you, thank you,

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mister Pool. Now please call me
Ralph. Sit down, I'll get

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your beer. Eh, that'll be
very nice. I just finished your article

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on banded birds. Enjoyed it well? Of course, there's nothing definitive about

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it. All the same, every
little bit of information helps. Here's your

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beer. Oh, thank you.
So you're here to watch the migrations,

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he said in your letter. Yes, and i'd like your permission to wander

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over your sanctuary. Consider it done. I'm just here to keep the hunters

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out. Any birdwatcher is welcome.
Oh that's very kind of you. You're

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a little early for the barn swallows. I may still be here in September

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when they take off. No,
I haven't the least idea where they go

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South America, of Brazil, Olivia, Peru, all over. I didn't

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know. Oh, then you are
not a dedicated bird watcher. I take

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it, I'm a dedicated poet.
Wa you don't say not the simplest way

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to make a living. Well,
did not somebody wangle this job for me?

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No, rent a garden of sorts
out back, fish from the ocean.

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I make up pretty well every now
and then I sell a bit of

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verse to some obscure publication. It's
a good life, not lonely. If

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it is, I don't mind it. There aren't tourists, not that I

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spend much time with them. Then
there are the birds, so you don't

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suffer from loneliness. Well now and
then I have a visitor like yourself.

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And then there's the girl. She's
here every day, a girl with red

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hair, eyes the color of pale
jade. Yeah, that's Maureen, Maureen

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Hart her name is. And I
saw her on the beach. Talk to

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her for a couple of minutes.
This is about the time of day.

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She arrives every day every day.
Doesn't sound as though she came to see

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you. She comes to build a
sand castle every day every day. Well,

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that's what she was doing when I
stopped to speak to her. You're

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a very elaborate sand castle with the
turrets and the battle miss She always builds

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the same one in the same place. Huh. Who is she? I

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don't know too much about her.
She's not very communicated. Yes, I

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noticed. I tried to talk to
her about birds, my favorite subject,

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and the only time I got a
definite reaction from her was when I told

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her about the Manx shearwaters. I
thought I saw a flock flying over.

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She's interested in shearwaters. I didn't
know she was interested in any of the

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birds. It is. When I
told her that the adult shearwaters often start

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their migration ahead of their offspring,
leaving them behind in the Canadian burrows where

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they were born. She's interested in
that. Oh, she got sort of

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the agitated. Wanted to know how
the young birds would know where to go.

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I'd like to know that myself.
Oh so would I. You mean

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nobody knows. Instinct is the best
answer anybody's come up with. But listen,

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tell me more about this girl who
build sand castles. Her mother works

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in town behind the counter at a
pizza parlor. I think Marian helps out

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now, and then actually, beyond
that, I don't know very much pizza.

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Carly just said where the mother works
it's the only one in town.

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Her name is Eleanor Hart. Let
me know what you find out, if

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anything, Oh I will. I
certainly will, because I like the girl.

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I do. I really like her. I don't quite know what I

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had in mind when I went looking
for the mother of the young girl on

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the beach. Perhaps I was simply
feeling lonely and out of touch with my

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life, and this was a way
of taking my mind off my own desolation,

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something to pass the time. Whatever
my motivation, I quickly located the

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pizza parlor, the only one in
town, with only one woman behind the

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counter. Yep, what'll it be? Are you missus Eleanor Hart? By

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any chance? That's me? Yes, Well, my name is Jeremy Denham.

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I'm just here for the summer.
Oh yeah, one of those you.

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You don't seem to be terribly busy
at the moment. I wonder if

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I might talk to you? What
about about your daughter? What about my

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daughter? Marine? I believe her
name is What about her? I ran

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across her this afternoon and we talked
a little about what well, I did

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most of her talking. I'm afraid
about birds, migrating birds, Maureene don't

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know nothing about birds. No,
no, no, that is my interest.

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I'm afraid that I bore lots of
people with it. What were you

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trying to do? Pick her up? Oh no, no, no,

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no, I'm a bit past the
age for that. Yeah, darn right,

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Not that i'd put it past her. I beg your pardon. Anything

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in pants? You know? No, I don't, I really don't.

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Every day she runs out of here
middle of the afternoon, leaves me to

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run the place by myself. You
think that she she goes off to meet

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some man? What else? Oh, I don't. I don't think that's

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true. That's not true at all. How would you know? You just

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met her? Well, that's so
new thing with her, She's been doing

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it for years, years, Oh
since she was a kid. He used

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to run off right after school,
didn't show up till dinner time, wouldn't

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tell me where she'd been or doing
water? Who with? But I knew,

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and I know now it's some boy
she's meeting on the fly with her.

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It's always a boy, always has
been, missus Hart. It is

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not a boy, well by now
it's a grown man. The only man

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she meets is the caretaker at the
bird sanctuary. There you see, I

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knew it was a man. Who
is he? But his name is Ralph

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Poole and they hardly know each other. That's what you think. That is

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what I know he told me,
And you believe him? Yes, I

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know he's not too well. He's
spoken to her a few times, found

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out her name, your name.
He's the one that told me where to

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find you. But that's all that
has happened between them. He likes her,

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he says, But there is no
you know, romantic involvement. I'm

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sure of that. He wouldn't have
told you if there was any more than

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she'd have told me. You don't
know much about the world, mister,

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I think I do. No,
he would not lie to me. Why

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wouldn't he, Well, because he's
not that kind of a man. Look,

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I don't think we've got any more
to talk about. Thanks for taking

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an interest in Maurie. He doesn't
go there to meet Ralph Pool or any

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other man, please believe me.
No. And what does she go there

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for? House? To build a
sand castle? To what to build a

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sand castle? Why would she do
that? I don't know. That's what

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I'm trying to find out. It's
crazy, that's what she was doing when

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her brother drowned. But that was
ten years ago. I couldn't find my

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voice to respond to what the woman
said. That's what she was doing when

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her brother drowned, But that was
ten years ago. Had the girl been

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building sand castles by the sea for
ten years? And if she had,

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why had she been doing it?
I venture to say that there are literally

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no mundane lives. Set out to
investigate the details of any one of them,

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and sooner or later you will come
upon something that marks it unusual,

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dramatic, or tragic, or perhaps
all three. No life is ordinary or

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uneventful. If it seems so,
it is because it is unexamined. I'll

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be back shortly with that. Two
last is a separation. In the mysterious

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realm of psychiatry. It is something
called a separation neuroses, where the psyche

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cannot bear up under the strain of
separation from someone loved, valued, or

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simply relied upon. It fills up
with terror, despair, and inpotency.

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Perhaps I do not really know.
It has its origin and infancy when the

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helpless baby is left alone by the
mother with no certainty that she will ever

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return, or perhaps it goes back
as far as the original separation from her

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body. Who was this character,
I thought, who'd come barging into my

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place of work asking about my daughter
dredging up something I'd finally managed to live

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with the death of my little son. I felt like throwing him out,

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telling him never to show his face
again. But for some reason I'll never

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understand, I didn't, Maybe because
he seemed so so concerned, not just

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interested, but really concerned. I'm
so sorry, missus hard I had no

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idea. That's all right. It
was a long time ago. Is it

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very painful for you to talk about
it? But if it is, it's

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not painful exactly. Maybe if I
talked about it more when it happened.

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You mean you didn't. You didn't
talk about it. It was such a

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shock. Oh, yes, of
course it was. He was only two

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years old, you know, two
years and two months. That's terribly sad.

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Yes, it was said he'd be
twelve years old if he hadn't drowned.

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And maybe my husband maybe, Yes, when Kenny drowned, he just

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took off. Hasn't been heard from
since. Oh, I am sorry.

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I'll tell you the truth long as
I'm at it. He and I hadn't

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been getting along for quite a while. Actually, I had Kenny because I

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thought a new baby would fix things
up between us. He did stay with

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you for two years, two years
and two months. He liked having a

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son, but he never liked being
married to me. Sure you had no

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one to share your grief with,
No, and neither did Maureen. I

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suppose very hard to mourn alone.
Well, you just put it out of

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your mind completely, forget it ever
happened. Have you been able to do

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that? Well? Yes, there
are times when I think about it,

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think back to what was or what
might have been. But then I get

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real busy doing something and I'm all
right, life must go on, you

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know, Yes, I do know. My wife died last year and my

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life is going on. Did you
love her most of the time? I

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did. Other times she irritated me
and got on my nerves. But the

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odd thing is when she passed away, I missed the times she got on

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my nerves almost as much as you
know other times. I see what you

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mean. Now, if it isn't
too difficult for you, would you tell

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me about the sand castle. After
my husband cut out, I had to

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go to work. He never sent
any money on what am I saying?

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I never even sent a postcard,
And here I am in this dinky town

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with a thirteen year old daughter.
That's not easy to see how it wouldn't

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be. Yeah, pretty daughter,
red hair, green eyes, neat figure.

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Oh yeah, she's very pretty.
It always was. The boys at

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school were after all the time,
and not that you could blame them,

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it was certainly not. I used
to bring Kenny to work with me,

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and after school Maureen would stop by
here and pick him up, take him

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to the beach anyway, that's where
she said she took him. Oh it

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probably was maybe, I know.
I didn't see the one of them until

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at time for dinner, and then
one day she showed up for dinner without

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Kenny. I was half out of
my mind. Of course you will,

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naturally, the first thing I said
was where's Kenny? But that girl just

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gave me this blank look, like
she'd suddenly gone stupid or something. I

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kept after and after she just kept
shaking her head and not talking. She

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was like dumb or something. I
think she must have been in shock.

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Well that could have been it,
I guess. H How did you find

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out where it happened to Kenny?
The police showed up. They said some

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tourists had found the body and reported
it that poor little boy had drowned in

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two feet of water, got knocked
down by a wave, I guess,

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and drowned in two feet of water. Well, I had the devil's own

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time getting Maureen to tell me how
it had happened. She didn't even know,

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not really. She kept telling me
how she'd been building this sand castle

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and it was all finished except for
the flag on top. Seems to always

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put a flag on top, a
piece of seaweed or something. She'd gone

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off to look for it. When
she came back, Kenny wasn't there.

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I don't know if it even entered
her head that he might have drowned.

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Far as she was concerned, he
had just disappeared. I am sorry for

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him, for her, For you. Yeah, I'll tell you something.

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I have never really believed that story
about going off to look for a flag.

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No, why not. It's my
private opinion. She went off to

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meet some boy. How long does
it take to find a piece of seaweed?

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The seaweed all over the beach,
or maybe she wanted something different on

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that particular day. Maybe and maybe
not. Anyway, Maureen. She just

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went on like nothing had happened.
Yes, yes she did. Oh maybe

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she got a little quieter for a
while, but that's all. Didn't you

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talk to her about Kenny? What
was there to say? Kenny was dead?

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I mean, that's all. It
wasn't anything to say. Well,

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thank you for telling me. But
it doesn't explain, does it, why

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Marine keeps going back building the same
sand castle over and over again. We

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still don't know why she does that. I hadn't told that story in ten

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years, and here I was going
over the whole thing with a man I'd

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never seen before, a nice older
man, but nobody who could possibly understand

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what I went through when I lost
Kenny. I didn't know if to believe

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him when he said Maureen went to
the beach every day and built a sand

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castle. So when I quit work, I went to find out if it

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was true. And there she was, Hello, mother, just like the

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man said. What man? Er
old guy came into the pizza parlor says,

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you come here every day, been
doing it for a long time,

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don no sand castle, new one
every day? How long you been doing

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that without telling me? A long
time? What else you been doing?

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What? Who is Ralph Poole.
He's the caretaker here. How old is

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he? I don't know, Mary, I don't know. Do you have

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a thing to ask him? Why
should I? Who didn't the subject ever

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come up? Why should it?
Well? What do you talk about?

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You and this mister poole? But
today we talked about the tides? The

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tides? What did mister Ralph Pool
have to say about the tides? It's

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the way the ocean rises and falls
twice a day. It has something to

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do with the way the sun and
the moon attract each other. I see.

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And this mister Poole, do you
and him attract each other? Well?

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He says, the reason why sand
castles get washed away is because of

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the flood tide. Well you know
that, don't you? Yes, I

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know it. And why for Heaven's
sakes do you keep coming back and making

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another one? I don't know why
I do that. I think maybe it's

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because I don't really believe it.
Well, why wouldn't you believe it?

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If you know it's so? Listen, mother, mister Pool's going to show

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me show you what how the tide
comes in and washes away the sand castle

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and just wind is he proposed to
do that the night of the first full

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moon. You are going to meet
this man on this beach at night?

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Yeah, oh no, no,
no, no you're not. Yes,

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I am mother. You and a
strange man alone on the beach with a

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full moon. There's only one way
that'll happen, and that's over my dead

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body. Yes you rolf pooh,
yes, I am. I'd like to

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come in. Please. I'm Eleanor
Hart. Oh, Maureen's mother. Please

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please come in, Thank you very
much. I'm very pleased to meet you,

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missus Hart. You are Maureen's told
you about me, well, not

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much, but some here. She
told you. I'm very strict with her.

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No, she never said that.
They never said much of anything except

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where you work, things like that. Well, she's told me about you,

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really, yes, really, and
she told me what she got planned

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for her, her and you.
Honestly, missus Hart, I don't know

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what you're talking about. The beach, the tide, full moon, you

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know, alright? No, oh
have that now. If you think I'm

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going to let my daughter out of
the house to meet you here late it

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no, no, no, no, no, no, let me explain.

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Please, it's not anything like what
you think. It's just an idea

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I had. Yeah, I know
all about the ideas men have about young

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girls. Now listen to me,
please someone. I know a friend of

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mine. He's here for the summer. He's a bird watcher as I am,

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in an amateur sort of way.
He's here to watch the migration of

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birds. Old gentleman, Well,
yes, over sixty, i'd say,

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I've met him. He came to
see me. That's how I know where

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marine goes every day, he told
me. Now, well I learned from

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him that some birds migrate by night, which astonished me. Well naturally,

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I said, how does anybody know
that birds migrate by night? Who's seen

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them? Well? Who did,
missus Hart? There's something called moon watching,

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and what's that? On the night
when there's a full moon, if

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you set up a telescope, you
have a good chance of seeing migrating birds

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fly across the moon. What do
you think of that? You mean it?

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Mister Denham told me he's seen them. Now, I don't have a

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telescope, but I have some very
strong binoculars, and the next full moon

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I mean to go out on the
beach and see if I can spot some

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migrating birds. What's all this got
to do with Marene. She don't take

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any interest in birds that I know. I know she doesn't. I don't

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even think she was listening when I
told her about moonwatching. But then I

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told her about the tides and how
the flood tide washes away her sand castles

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every night, and she was interested
in that, Yeah, she told me,

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so, I thought, I'll combine
the two things. Maybe she'll be

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interested in the moon watching. Maybe
she won't, but she'll be there when

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the tide comes in and washes away
her beautiful sand castle. Then maybe she

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won't have to build another one.
Ugh that moon watching. I'd kind of

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like to see that myself. He
wasn't such a bad guy, lots nicer

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than I thought. It'd be nice
lookin too, about thirty thirty five,

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something like that, and educated.
You could tell that right away. I

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knew I was taking a chance,
but I told Maureen it was okay.

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She could go meet him on the
night of the next fool. I suppose

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we could say that our young heroine
is acting under a compulsion, that is,

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a feeling of being irresistibly driven toward
the performance of some action which is

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irrational, one which she knows and
concedes to be irrational, and there lies

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the mystery of the compulsion will demonstrating
that the tide washes away every sand castle

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she builds. The term Maureene Heart
from building yet another one, and another,

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and another and another are continued actory. Shortly there are three people puzzled

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by Marine Heart's daily continuing construction of
a sand castle on the beach. Jeremy

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Denham, an elderly retired professor and
an avid bird watcher. Ralph Poole,

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caretaker of the bird sanctuary, and
Eleanor Hart, Mareene's mother. While each

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would like to unravel the secret of
the girl's obsession, it is the history

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of convulsion that no outsider can influence
or alter what the compulsive person does not

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comprehend, but simply obeys. Peculiar
woman miss his heart. I suppose lots

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of mothers have this fixed idea that
every man alive is trying to seduce their

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daughters. I don't know why this
should be, but I don't think it's

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right. Not that I wasn't attracted
to Maureen. I was, but not

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just because she was pretty, now
because there was something helpless about her,

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something that made me want to protect
her and take care of her. Well.

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Anyway, the time of the full
moon came around, Maureen and I

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made a date to meet on the
beach. Hi there, Hi, Hi,

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mister Poole. Well, hello,
missus hart. I thought i'd come

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along that moonwatching business. I'd like
to see that. I'm very glad you

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did that. Do you know how
to use binoculars? I got no idea.

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I'll show you as soon as I
get them adjusted. Marine. Mister

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Poole's going to show us how to
look through the binocular Yeah. She won't

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budge from that sand castle. Now
the tide has started coming in. She'll

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have to move pretty soon. There, try that, okay. Ah,

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I can see the moon all right, and no birds though maybe we won't

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see any. You have to be
lucky. Wait listen, I yes,

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if we're lucky, some of them
will fly right across the moon. Oh.

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I hope, so I do,
hope. So there they are.

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There they are. Let me look. I think they're Wilson's petrol. Will

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let me look? Please? Here
where's Maureen? Oh? Oh, I

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see him? I see her,
Maureen. I'm here. Ah, you

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missed the great sight. The tide
washed away miss Sandcastle. You knew it

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would do that. Yes, I
knew, Maureen, where were you?

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You missed the whole thing. First
we heard them, then we saw them

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flying across the moon. Whereas hey, mister Pooley even knows what kind of

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birds they were, And you missed
the whole thing? Where is they?

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Tell me where is? Maureen kept
beating at her mother with her fists.

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Eleanor heart was completely bewildered, and
so I must admit was I. We

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stood by helpless as Maureen sobbed and
shrieked at her mother. At last,

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she subsided, more I think from
exhaustion than from anything else. Leaning on

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her mother, she let herself be
taken home. A few days later,

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mister Denham stopped by the house and
I tried to tell him about it.

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It didn't quite turn up the way
you'd hope, did it. I thought

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just the sight of the sea washing
away her beautiful sandcastle well would put an

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end to it. Children don't know
about death, how can they. They

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just feel shock and horror that someone
had been taken away from them. But

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she just kept pummeling her mother and
screaming, where is he? Where is

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he? Tell me where he is? Children are very angry when someone may

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love disappears. Maureen isn't a child. She's over twenty. She was a

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child when her brother drowned. You'd
think by this time should have taken it

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in that her brother is dead.
Children can't mourn, you know. I

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remember when my mother died. I
was ten when that happened. I felt

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shocked, stunned really that she should
have gone off and left me angry too.

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But I never grieved in the adult
sense. I couldn't. I didn't

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know how. I do know that
there's been a shadow over my life since

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she died. That shadow may have
been my grief. But you seem just

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fine, not like a man who's
lived his life under a shadow. No,

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how did you manage that? I
don't know that I have managed it,

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not completely. I do know,
though, that marrying the woman I

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did helped a lot. No,
it hadn't turned out quite the way I'd

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hoped. My little plan had no
effect on Maureen at all. She kept

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showing up day after day, at
the same time, building her sand castle

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in the same place. I tried, not going nearer. I watched her

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from my house, and even when
I made a tour of the island looking

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for hunters, I kept thinking about
her and wondering and wanting to be with

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her. Hello, Maureen, Oh
hello, mister cool. Don't you think

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by this time you could call me
by my first name? It's Ralph?

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I know. Mind? If I
sit down, I could help you with

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the castle. All right, I'm
sorry you missed the moon watching the other

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night. Mother said it was very
exciting. We should have a drawbridge across

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this moat. Don't you think I
don't know how to build one out of

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sand. I'll think about it,
maybe figure out something. It's finished.

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Oh no, not yet, Yes
it is, it's finished. No,

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there has to be a flag flying
from the topmost turret with the owner's crest

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on it, a banner, a
pennon. No, every good sand castle

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has one. This one doesn't.
But it's absolutely essential. I'll go look

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for one. No, no,
don't go Why not? What's the matter?

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You go away? Don't don't leave
me. I wasn't going to go

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far. I don't want a flag. Why not? I never put a

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flag on top? Why not?
Why don't you? I just don't ever,

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But why don't you? There's got
to be a reason. Oh,

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it doesn't have to be one.
Want me to tell you what I think

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The reason is. It was when
you went away from the castle to find

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a flag, that your brother drowned. Isn't that right? That is right,

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isn't it. I wasn't gone very
long, I didn't go very far,

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I know that. But when I
came back to see it gobbled him

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up, I understand he was just
gone. I didn't know for a long

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time that he that he had drowned, that he was dead, that i'd

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never see him again. You still
don't know it. Oh yes, I

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know it now. My mother told
me, No, you don't know it.

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That's why you keep coming back here
and building a sand castle. You

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go through the whole thing over and
over again. You'd do it all except

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the last thing, putting a flag
on top. I never do that.

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No, you never do that,
because then your brother would drown again,

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wouldn't he. You'd come back from
looking for the flag and the sea would

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have gobbled him up. As long
as you don't do that, there's a

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chance that he'll be right here where
you left him this time. Everything would

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turn out right. Isn't that so, Maureen? Isn't it such a nice

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little boy? If you can just
undo everything, live it all over again,

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except the last part. Leave out
the last part, and then it'll

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be as though he had never drowned. Such the good little boy. You

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keep going back over that day,
don't you keep going over and over it,

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trying to make it different. I
loved him, of course you did.

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I loved him a lot. Don't
you think I know that? Even

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when I got cross with him,
I still loved him. I know.

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I never thought anything would happen to
him because I loved him. I know

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something did. Probably a big wave
came along and knocked him down, and

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he trout He's dead, Yes,
and I'll never see him again. That's

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right. It's like it's like like
what like I died, but you didn't

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die. You're right here. A
little bit of me died, it,

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did it? Really did? Oh? I want him back. I want

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him to come back. I know, I know, honestly I do.

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Ohy doesn't he come back? Because
he's dead, my dear, I can't

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stand it if he doesn't come back. I need him, I want him,

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I love him. Why doesn't he
come back? Why doesn't he just

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one more time? Why doesn't he
come back? Just one more time?

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We sat on the beach, for
at least an hour while the tears poured

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from her eyes, and I held
her in my arms. Ten years if

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tears were shed in that hour,
I think, and I let them flow.

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I wouldn't have stopped them for the
world. I was happy to hold

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her and let her cry. But
he won't come back, Willie. No,

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not ever, not ever. I
guess I know that now, Maureen.

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The night we spent moonwatching, you
and your mother and I you sat

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here by the said you had built
that day and you wouldn't leave it now.

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After your mother and I had seen
the petrols fly across the moon,

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we came back here and your mother
was a little bit annoyed with you.

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She kept saying you you missed the
whole thing. And you do you remember

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what you said? You kept beating
at your mother, hitting her over and

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over, and do you remember what
you kept saying? I think I said,

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where is he? Asked? Right? Where is he? Tell me

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where he is? Now? Did
you think that she could find your brother

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for you? I don't know.
I don't think so. I think you

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wanted her to tell you where your
father had gone to, where he is

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and how to get him back.
Do you think maybe I'm right. Maybe

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it could be you're right. We'll
talk about it one of these days.

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Now, let's go up to my
house and have a cold drink and maybe

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talk a little bit about you and
me. Maureen and I are married now

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and she's expecting a baby. For
a time we talked about setting out to

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find her father, but after a
while she seemed to lose interest in it.

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And now with the baby coming,
Wow, everything is quite different now.

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I think the long period of mourning
is finally over. To lose a

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brother and a father at an early
age, I think this is more than

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a young child can bear. The
young cannot mourn their loss. They can

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only feel hurt, helpless and direct
and wanting someone to stop the hurt,

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remedy the lost, give back their
courage. This longing can go on for

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a very long time. I'll be
back shortly. Can children be taught to

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grieve? I doubt it. The
best we can do is help them voice

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the awful hurt, the endless longing, hold them close while they yearn and

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cry. It doesn't seem like much, but it's all we can do.

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Heaven knows we would do more if
we could, but we ourselves are filled

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with hurt and longing. Our cast
includes Norman Rose, Chada Rowland, Terry

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Keene and Gordon Gold. The entire
production was in the direction of Hyman Brown.

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This is Tommy Grimes inviting you to
return to our Mystery theater for another

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adventure in the macar until next time. Please. I do so much enjoy

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the occasional trip to the beach,
and I hope you enjoyed taking one with

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me this night. Ah, the
sand between my toes. Honestly, I

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just kind of miss having toes.
Oh my dear, my dear, Well,

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what's that? What's that? Oh
my mind? No, don't you

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concern yourself at all with that?
No, no, no, I'm just

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glad to have you here with me
listening to these stories. I appreciate that

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you sit and fiddle with that little
dial on your radio until you find me.

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It's very kind of you, interview, and I'm so glad this little

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old microphone still has some life left
in it. I may or may not,

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but that's not really important right now. What is important is that I

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see you tomorrow night right here,
So get warm and cozy in your bed

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until Tomne the rambling tumbling your probing
the mumbling private thing of bregant O